لَعَمْرُك ما طال الوُقوفُ على الحِمَى

لَعَمْرُك ما طال الوُقوفُ على الحِمَى

لِحِيرةِ فكري من دُرُوسِ المَرابِعِ

لِحِيرةِ فكري من دُرُوسِ المَرابِعِ

By your life, my lingering at the protected grounds was not

By your life, we did not linger long on the ruins

from my mind's bewilderment at the fading of the spring encampments;

In my bewilderment from the lessons of the square.

ولكنْ تمَشَّتْ في ذَراهُ عُيونُنا

ولكنْ تمَشَّتْ في ذَراهُ عُيونُنا

تجُرُّ على الأطْلالِ ذَيْلَ المَدَامِعِ

تجُرُّ على الأطْلالِ ذَيْلَ المَدَامِعِ

rather, our eyes wandered among its heights,

Yet our eyes wandered over its particles,

trailing over the ruins the train of tears.

Dragging over the vestiges the trains of tears.