1. هي صفحة طويت وحان ختام

    آسي الأساة على ثراك سلامُ

    It is a page folded away, and the end has come.

    Healer of healers, peace be upon your dust.

  2. لهفي عليك تسلّمتك يد البلى

    وانفض عنك إلى النشور زحام

    My anguish for you! The hand of decay has taken you,

    And the throng has dispersed from around you until the resurrection.

  3. الحفل منتظم تكامل عقده

    أين العشيَّ خيالك البسام

    The gathering is assembled; its necklace is complete.

    Where, at evening, is your ever-smiling image?

  4. يتلفتون به كأنك عائد

    هيهات في ريب المنون كلام

    They look around there, as though you were returning.

    How futile are words amid death's calamities!

  5. لا صحو من سِنة المنون وإنما

    سهر الخلود عليك حيث تنام

    There is no waking from death's slumber; rather,

    Immortality keeps vigil over you where you sleep.

  6. يا أيها الآسي العزيز بمضجع

    ناءٍ له الإكبار والإعظام

    O beloved healer, in a resting place

    Far away, to which reverence and veneration are due.

  7. أنت الطبيب وقد بلوت حياته

    ومجالها الأوجاع والأسقام

    You are the physician; I have known that life,

    And its domain is aches and ailments.

  8. جلت الحياة له حقيقتها فما

    في ظلها لبسٌ ولا أوهام

    Life has laid bare its truth to him; there is no

    Ambiguity in its shade, nor any illusion.

  9. وله مع القدر الرهيب وقائع

    وله مع الموت الملمِّ صدام

    And he has battles with dreadful fate,

    And he has a clash with oncoming death.

  10. ووراء ذلك قوة أزليةٌ

    خرساء عنها ما أميط لثام

    And behind that is an eternal power,

    Mute, whose veil has never been lifted.

  11. أي الأساة هو المدلّ بفنه

    سبحان من تحنى لديه الهام

    Which of the healers can boast of his art?

    Glory to the One before whom heads are bowed.

  12. بلدٌ على بلد كأنك ضارب

    في الأرض ما يدري لديه مقام

    Land after land, as though you were journeying

    Across the earth, knowing no settled abode.

  13. فرجعتَ من حمى الحياة لمثلها

    حمّى تهد الصرح وهو مقام

    So you returned from life's fever to another like it—

    A fever that topples the edifice while it stands.

  14. سفر على سفر فهذي رقدة

    شفي الغليل بها وطاب أوام

    Journey after journey; this, then, is a sleep

    By which burning thirst is quenched and parching thirst eased.

  15. يلقي الغريب على جوانبه العصا

    وتقر فيها أعين وعظام

    The stranger lays his staff down beside it,

    And eyes and bones find rest within it.

  16. رقد الصغير إلى الكبير مجاوراً

    وتعانق الأحباب والأخصام

    The small one slept beside the great one, as a neighbor,

    And loved ones and foes embraced.

  17. هجعوا إلى يوم النشور وهكذا

    هجعت هنالك ألفة وخصام

    They have fallen asleep until the day of resurrection, and so

    Affection and strife have fallen asleep there.