عَلامَ يا دهرُ بالعُدوَانِ تَحبِسُني

في غيرِ جِنْسِي وَلم أُفقَدْ ولم أَغِبِ

Why, O Fate, do you unjustly detain me

Among those not of my kind, though I am neither lost nor gone?

هَلاّ بأَدنَى العذَابَيْنِ اقتَنَعْتَ لنَا

فالذَّبحُ أَرْوَحُ من تَعذيبِ مُغتَرِبِ

Would you not be content to inflict the least of torments upon us?

For slaughter would be more merciful than the agony of exile.