إنِّي بُليتُ بسيِّدٍ كالدهرِ إذْ

إنِّي بُليتُ بسيِّدٍ كالدهرِ إذْ

يُنْحي بسطوتِهِ على الأحرارِ

يُنْحي بسطوتِهِ على الأحرارِ

Indeed, I have been afflicted with a master like Time, as

I'm weary of a master like Time itself

he bears down with his might upon free men.

That exerts its tyranny over the free

فرطُ الفظاظَةِ والصلابةِ دأْبُهُ

فرطُ الفظاظَةِ والصلابةِ دأْبُهُ

وأنا لديهِ بذُلَّةٍ وصَغَارِ

وأنا لديهِ بذُلَّةٍ وصَغَارِ

Excessive harshness and inflexibility are his habit,

Excessive harshness and rigidity are its ways

and I am before him in humiliation and abasement.

While I remain submissive and small before it