ولقد رميت من الزمان بنائب

أدمت مواضع عضّه أسنانه

Time's calamities have surely wounded me,

And left their marks with gnawing teeth engraved.

والموت يحكم بيننا بسويّة

ويُبين فضل قضائه عيدانه

But death rules over us with equity,

Revealing justice in the staves he craved.