تَناثَرَت مِن مَدامِعي دررٌ

تَناثَرَت مِن مَدامِعي دررٌ

أَثرى بِها وَاِفتَقَرت من لَقَطا

أَثرى بِها وَاِفتَقَرت من لَقَطا

Pearls scattered from my tearful eyes;

Pearls scattered from my weeping eyes.

Pearls fell from my tears

Pearls scattered down from my weeping eyes,

whoever gathered them grew rich by them, while I was left impoverished.

Whoever picked them up grew rich, while I grew poor.

I grew rich from them though I was bereft

Enriching the earth, while he who gathered them found only poverty,

إِنَّ دِياراً حَلَلتها لِفَلا

إِنَّ دِياراً حَلَلتها لِفَلا

وَإِنّ سِرباً بَكى مَعي لَقطا

وَإِنّ سِرباً بَكى مَعي لَقطا

Truly, the dwellings where you once alighted are wilderness,

The dwellings I inhabited are indeed wastelands,

Homes I left to strangers

Truly, the abodes you have occupied are but a barren desert,

and any flock that wept with me would surely be sandgrouse.

And the flock that wept with me were indeed sandgrouse.

And migrating birds wept with me when I wept

And the flock that wept along with me was surely the sandgrouse.