لما نظرت الى ارجاء وجنته

لما نظرت الى ارجاء وجنته

ورسمها طامسٌ محت علائمه

ورسمها طامسٌ محت علائمه

When I looked upon the reaches of his cheek,

When I looked upon its corners and garden

And its outline was effaced, its marks had vanished,

And found it in ruins, its marks erased

ظللت أندبه شجواً وأنشده

ظللت أندبه شجواً وأنشده

يا منزلاً باللوى أقوت معالمه

يا منزلاً باللوى أقوت معالمه

I kept lamenting it in sorrow and reciting to it:

I began to mourn it in lament and recite

“O dwelling at al-Liwa, whose landmarks have grown desolate!”

O home of those I love, I have lost your traces