تَرومونَ بِالناموسِ كَسَباً فَسَعيُكُم

إِذا لاحَت الأَطماعُ سَعيُ نُموسِ

You seek through law to reap rewards, so your pursuit

When greed looms is the quest of vermin

وَما وَعظَتَكُم لَيلَةٌ بَعدَ لَيلَةٍ

وَلا ضَوءُ أَقمارٍ بَدَت وَشُموسُ

No night has counseled you after night

Nor the light of moons and suns that dawned

نُوَقِّرُ دُنيانا لِناسٍ وَبَعضُنا

تَبَوَّأَ مِنها فَوقَ ظَهرِ شَموسِ

We honor a world for people, though some of us

Have ascended in it above the sun's ridge

فَواهاً لِأَشباحٍ لَكُم غَيرَ أَنَّها

تُبَدَّلُ مِن أَوطانِها بَرموسِ

Alas for specters you have, except that they

Are exiled from their homelands without purpose

وَأَعظَمُ آثارِ الأَنامِ بَقيَّةً

تُغَيّرُهُ أَيّامُهُ بِطُموسِ

And the greatest of all people's ruins that remain

His days change it with obscurity