1. وَكَيفَ وَقَد صاروا عِظاماً وَأَقبُراً

    يَصيحُ صَداها بالعَشيِّ وَهامُها

    And how, when they have become bones and graves?

    Their owl and their death-birds cry out at dusk.

  2. تَفانَوا وَلَم يَبقوا وَكُلُّ قَبيلَةٍ

    سَريعٌ إِلى وِردِ الفَناءِ كِرامُها

    They perished, none remaining; and every tribe—

    Its noble ones hasten to death’s watering-place.