1. كفى غضباً يا أورزيل وقسوة

    على عاشق ذابت جوانحه وجدا

    Enough anger, O Orzil, and cruelty

    toward a lover whose heart has melted with longing.

  2. فما راسفٌ في قيده شُدَّ عنقُهُ

    لسيفِ ظلومٍ كلما استعطف اشتدا

    For no man shuffling in his fetters, his neck bound

    for the sword of a tyrant who grows harsher whenever implored,

  3. بأتعس مني حين ألقاك شاكياً

    فلا أجدن إلا التكبَّرَ والصدا

    is more wretched than I when I come to you complaining,

    and find nothing but haughtiness and rejection.

  4. وما ساءني إلا تذكُّر عزتي

    وبأسي الذي لو صادم الجبل انهدا

    And nothing has pained me but remembering my dignity

    and my might—had it struck a mountain, that mountain would have crumbled.

  5. فداؤك ما ضيعته من سيادة

    تعود وتبقى يوم ترضين بي عبدا

    The sovereignty I have squandered is your ransom;

    it will return and endure the day you accept me as a slave.