أردداه من أسف وحزن

وما تجدى لدى الحسرات آها

I repeat 'ah!' out of sorrow and grief,

Yet 'ah!' avails nothing amid regrets.

وأهمل أدمعاً كالقطر سحا

على نفس نواها قد براها

And I shed tears in torrents, like rain,

Over a soul that separation has worn away.

نأت عن دار أحباب كرام

فأضناها وأشجاها نواها

It has gone far from the home of noble loved ones,

And separation has exhausted it and filled it with sorrow.

رمتها أسهم الأقدار قصدا

فذادت عن لواحظها كراها

The arrows of fate struck it deliberately,

And drove slumber from its eyes.

مناها أن تحل ديار نجد

وما تبغى من الدنيا سواها

Its wish is to dwell in the lands of Najd,

And it seeks nothing else from this world.

وما دار ينجد تيمتها

ولكن حب من وارى ثراها

Yet no dwelling in Najd has enthralled it,

But love for him whom its soil has concealed.

فلو لثمت تراب ثرى قبابٍ

بطيبة دارها نالت مناها

If it kissed the dust of the soil beneath domes,

In Taybah, their home, it would attain its wish.

قباب للعلاء وللمعالي

سنا شمس الظهيرة من سناها

Domes of eminence and lofty glory:

The noonday sun's radiance comes from their radiance.

وحقّ بهائها وضيا سناها

لقد زهيَ الزمان بها وتاها

By their splendor and the light of their radiance,

Time has indeed taken pride in them and exulted.

فلا زالت تحفّ بها العوالي

وتحمى من أعاديها حماها

May lofty spears never cease to surround them,

And defend their sanctuary from their enemies.

لقد حجبتني الأقدار عنها

متى يقضى لعيني أن تراها

Fate has indeed barred me from them;

When will it be decreed that my eyes behold them?

عليها ما شدَت ورقٌ سلام

فشوقى نحو مريعها تناهى

Peace upon them as long as gray doves sing,

For my longing for their fertile grounds has reached its utmost.