هاتِ التي هيَ يومَ البَعثِ أوزارُ

هاتِ التي هيَ يومَ البَعثِ أوزارُ

كالنارِ في الحُسْنِ عُقبى شُربِها النارُ

كالنارِ في الحُسْنِ عُقبى شُربِها النارُ

Bring me that which will be a burden of sin on Resurrection Day,

The burdens on Resurrection Day are like fire

Like fire in beauty—drinking it ends in the Fire.

Whose end is fire, though pleasant is its drinking.

أما تَرى الوَردَ قد باح الرَّبيعُ به

أما تَرى الوَردَ قد باح الرَّبيعُ به

من بعدِ ما مرَّ حَوْلٌ وهو إضمارُ

من بعدِ ما مرَّ حَوْلٌ وهو إضمارُ

Do you not see the rose that spring has revealed,

Do you not see how the rose has bloomed with spring?

After a year had passed while it lay concealed?

After a cycle it was concealed and folded.

وكانَ في خِلَعٍ خُضْرٍ فقد خُلِعَت

وكانَ في خِلَعٍ خُضْرٍ فقد خُلِعَت

إلا عُرىً أُغْفِلَتْ منه وأزرارُ

إلا عُرىً أُغْفِلَتْ منه وأزرارُ

And it wore green robes, which have now been cast off,

It was clothed in a green robe, but it has doffed

Save for loops forgotten on it, and buttons.

Them, till nothing remains on it but petals.