بَكَى فَرثَت له أَجبالُ صُبحٍ

بَكَى فَرثَت له أَجبالُ صُبحٍ

وأسعَدتِ الجِبالَ بها مُرُوتُ

وأسعَدتِ الجِبالَ بها مُرُوتُ

He wept, and the mountains of Subh pitied him.

The morning mountains wept for him,

And Murut joined the mountains there in mourning.

And the mountains were made happy by it.

حِجَازِيُّ الهَوَى عَلِقٌ بِنَجدٍ

حِجَازِيُّ الهَوَى عَلِقٌ بِنَجدٍ

جَوِيٌّ لا يَعِيشُ ولا يَمُوتُ

جَوِيٌّ لا يَعِيشُ ولا يَمُوتُ

Hijazi in his love, bound to Najd,

A Hejazi, his love clinging to Najd,

Lovesick, he neither lives nor dies.

Neither able to live nor die.

فَتَردَعُه الدَّبُور لها أَجِيجٌ

فَتَردَعُه الدَّبُور لها أَجِيجٌ

ويُسلِمه إِلى الوَجدِ المَبِيتُ

ويُسلِمه إِلى الوَجدِ المَبِيتُ

Then the west wind, roaring, drives him back,

The caravans deter him for their howling,

And his lodging at night gives him over to longing.

And the ardour of night surrenders him.

كأَنَّ فؤادَه كَفَّا غَرِيقٍ

كأَنَّ فؤادَه كَفَّا غَرِيقٍ

تَنازَعَهُ بِشَطِّ البَحرِ حُوتُ

تَنازَعَهُ بِشَطِّ البَحرِ حُوتُ

As though his heart were a drowning man's two hands,

As if his heart were the palm of a drowning man,

Whom a great fish grappled with at the sea's edge.

Struggled over by a whale at sea's edge.

لِهندٍ منكَ عَينٌ ذاتُ سَجلٍ

لِهندٍ منكَ عَينٌ ذاتُ سَجلٍ

وقَلبٌ سَوفَ يُفقَدُ أَو يَفُوتُ

وقَلبٌ سَوفَ يُفقَدُ أَو يَفُوتُ

For Hind, your eye pours tears by the bucket,

You have an eye, Hind, with kohl adorned,

And a heart that will be lost or slip away,

And a heart soon to be lost or wasted.

إِذا اكتَنَفا بِضَرِّهِما سَقِيماً

إِذا اكتَنَفا بِضَرِّهِما سَقِيماً

يُعادِى الدّاء ليس لَهُ مُقِيتُ

يُعادِى الدّاء ليس لَهُ مُقِيتُ

When the two beset a sick man with their harm,

When they two afflict a sick man with their harm,

Who battles illness with no one to sustain him.

The disease they aid has no assuager.