كم قد رأيتُ بهذا القصر من مَلِكٍ

دارتْ عليه صروفُ الدهر فاخْتُلِسا

How many a king have I seen in this palace

Whom the vicissitudes of fate stole away

كأنه والذي قد كان يجمعه

طيفٌ تَصوَّر للرائي إذا نَعَسا

As if he and what he had gathered

Were a specter that appeared to a dreamer when he slept