أَنتَ كَالاحتلال زَهواً وَكبراً

أَنتَ كَالانتداب عجباً وَتيها

You are like the occupation, arrogance and pride

You are like the mandate, wonder and loss

أَنتَ كَالهجرة الَّتي فَرضوها

لَيسَ من حيلة لقومك فيها

You are like the emigration they imposed

Your people have no stratagem for it

أَنتَ أَنكى مِن بائع الأرض عندي

أَنتَ أَعذاره الَّتي يدعيها

You are more painful to me than the seller of land

You are his excuses he claims

لَكَ وَجه كَأَنَّهُ سَمسا

ر عَلى شَرط أَن يَكون وَجيها

You have a face as though it were

A document on the condition it be prestigious

وَجَبين مثل الجَريدة لَما

لَم تَجد كاتِباً عَفيفاً نزيها

And a forehead like a journal when

It could not find a decent, honest writer

وَحَديث فيهِ اِبتِذال اِحتِجاج

كُلَما نَمقوه عادَ كريها

And talk in which there is common protestation

Every time they groom it, it returns loathsome

جَمَعت فيك عصبة لِلبَلايا

وَأَرى كُل أُمة تَشتَكيها

You have gathered in yourself a gang of calamities

And I see every nation complaining of it