"God ever bless those days gone by,

سقى الله أياماً مـضـت ولـيالـياً
تحاكي لنا النيلوفر الغض في النشر

فأوراقه الأيام حـسـنـاً وبـهـجة
وأوسطه الليل المقصر للـعـمـر

لهونا بها فـي غـمـرة وتـآلـف
تمر فلا ندري وتأتي فـلا نـدري

فأعقبـنـا مـنـه زمـان كـأنـه
ولا شك حسن العقد أعقب بالغـدر
"God ever bless those days gone by,
Those nights we joyed in, thou and I,
Memories that still fragrant are
And fresh as the sweet nenuphar.

The lily's petals are ablaze
With glittering beauty, like our days;
Its center is the night, whose knife
Cuts short our slender thread of life.

We passed our days and nights away
In heedless joy and folly gay,
And so they came, and so they fled,
And we knew not the way they sped.

But presently another time
Succeeded to that age sublime,
Fair promise of fidelity
Belied, alas! by perfidy".

AND:

فلا تيأسي يا نفس عل زماننا
يعود بوجه مقبل غير مدبـر
كما صرف الرحمن ملك أمية
إليهم ولوذي بالتجمل والصبر
"Yet, O my soul, do not despair:
Perchance the times will yet be fair,
And Fortune, who has turned her face
Too long, renew her former grace.

For Allah, the All-Merciful,
Hath given the 0mayyads rule,
And I, like them, may therefore wait
In fortitude for better fate".

~ Ibn Hazm ~