جار الزمانُ علينا في تصرفِه

وأي دهرٍ على الأحرار لم يَجُرِ

Time passes by controlling us in its course

And what era on the free has not gone by

عندي من الدهر ما لو أنَّ أيسَرَهُ

يُلقى على الفلك الدَّوَار لم يَدُرِ

For me, of time, what if its easiest part

Were cast upon the revolving cosmos, it would not revolve