سَألْنَا رَبيعَ ألْعامِ للِعاَمِ رَحْمَةً

فَضَنّ وَلَمْ يَسْمَحْ بِذَرّةِ إنْعَامِ

We asked the spring rain for mercy upon the year,

But it was miserly and did not bestow a drop of rain.

وَقْلنا وَقَدْ رَدّ اَلْوُجُوهَ وَلَمْ يُبَلْ

قَليلُ الْحَياَ وَاَللّهِ أصْبَحْتَ مِن عَامِ

And we said, now that it has turned away the faces and did not moisten,

Little life remains, by Allah you have become less than a year.