1. زاغت تزول الحياة

    فتنتهي الحركات

    Life has strayed; it passes away,

    And so movements cease.

  2. اهوى الحياة ولكن

    ما للحياة ثبات

    I love life, and yet

    Life has no permanence.

  3. هناك جيل هو ال

    يوم في التراب رفات

    There is a generation that is

    Today mere remains in the dust.

  4. تخفى عن العين فيه

    عظامه النخرات

    Hidden from the eye within it

    Are its decayed bones.

  5. الى البلى سبقته

    الآباء والامهات

    Into decay ahead of it went

    The fathers and the mothers.

  6. تبكي الشباب على شي

    ب في الحفائر باتوا

    The young weep for the gray-

    haired who spent the night in the burial pits.

  7. والشيب تبكي شباباً

    عاشوا قليلا وماتوا

    And the gray-haired weep for youths

    Who lived briefly and died.

  8. الى سكون طويل

    ستنتهي الحركات

    In a long stillness

    Movements will come to an end.

  9. ورب آس لميت

    عيونه خضلات

    And many a mourner for one dead

    Has eyes wet with tears.

  10. يردى الصديق وتبقى

    من بعده الذكريات

    The friend perishes, and there remain

    After him, the memories.

  11. مهما كبرت فعندي

    من المنايا خشاة

    However old I grow, I still have

    A fear of death.

  12. كأنما الموت ذئب

    كأنما انا شاة

    As though death were a wolf,

    As though I were a sheep.

  13. والموت ليس بقاس

    تحق منه الشكاة

    And death is not so cruel

    As to warrant complaint against it.

  14. عند المنية ان جا

    ءت تنتهي النكبات

    At death—if it should

    Come—calamities end.

  15. وفي القبور تساوى

    احبة وعداة

    And in the graves have become equal

    Loved ones and enemies.