يا هل بكيت كما بكت

ورق الحمائم في الغصون

O you who wept as the leaves

Of the doves weep on the branches

هتفت سحيراً والربى

للقطر رافعة الجفون

Crying out deliriously while the ruins

Lift up their eyelids to the rain

فكأنها صاغت على

شجوي شجى تلك اللحون

As if they had cast upon

My longing their own yearning

ذكرنني عهداً مضى

للإنس منقطع القرير

They reminded me of days gone by

For humankind, no longer murmuring

فتصرمت أيامه

وكأنها رجع العيون

So its days withered away

As if the eyes had turned back