أرى حنك الوزارة صار سيفاً

يجز بحده صيد الرقاب

I see the wisdom of authority has become a sword

Severing with its edge the necks of prey

كأنك رائد البلوى وإلا

بشير بالمنية والمصاب

As if you were the harbinger of calamities

A bearer of death and affliction