والدهرُ هدَّ الظَهرَ بالحَدثانِ

والدهرُ هدَّ الظَهرَ بالحَدثانِ

ونفى الشجونَ وجاء بالأشجانِ

ونفى الشجونَ وجاء بالأشجانِ

And time has broken my back with calamities.

Time has bowed the back with sorrows

And banished cares and brought sorrows.

And banished the tender griefs, replacing them with despair

وأقامَ بالخُلدِ البلابِلَ خُلَّداً

وأقامَ بالخُلدِ البلابِلَ خُلَّداً

وبريبِهِ قد طالما أشجاني

وبريبِهِ قد طالما أشجاني

And made anxieties dwell forever in the mind.

In this abode of eternity the nightingales sing on

And through its vicissitudes it has so often grieved me.

And its tribulations have long made me mourn