1. القرى قد تهدمت والبيوت

    ثم عز المأوى وعز القوت

    The villages and the houses have crumbled.

    Then shelter grew scarce, and food grew scarce.

  2. فتيات يعولن خوف المنايا

    ومنايا تطوف وهي سكوت

    Young women wail in fear of death,

    And deaths circle round in silence.

  3. بالاتي الفلاح فوجئ ليلا

    فهو في ظهر ربوة مبهوت

    The farmer was startled at night by what came,

    So he is on a hill's crest, bewildered,

  4. ينظر السيل وهو ضخم مخيف

    يتنزى كأنه عفريت

    Watching the flood, immense and terrifying,

    Leaping about as though it were a demon.

  5. امل ذاهب وجهد مضاع

    وشياه غرقى وشمل شتيت

    Hope gone, and effort wasted,

    And drowned sheep, and a scattered community.

  6. ليت شعري هل الطبيعة غضبى

    قد قضت في ابنائها ان يموتوا

    Would that I knew: is Nature angry,

    Having decreed that her children should die?