1. Is there a gazelle at Saba bending down her neck in the thicket of tangled trees,
While the morning dew dampens their twigs with the moisture of pearls?

2. As if a planet of the night shone out during its gloom,
Or the fireflies gleamed in the darkness of their thickets.

3. O lightning flash, craze my heart, then heal it,
For it is the knights of Najd that I implore.

4. Beware that the spying eyes do not observe him
Whether the veils are removed or the convents appear.

5. Place him amid the panic of the startled one,
Where the borders abound with weakness, and misery.

6. And say to the people of the place that this is your sick one,
Who languishes from the agony of love and desires.

7. Had he recalled your memory in his inner thoughts
And wished to speak one day, dumbness would seize him.

8. With a visitation in the heart of the night it came to him
Riding the fever, approved with its visions.

9. We passed from the night in embroidered wraps,
While the sands were a carpet and meteors stood guard.

10. A more delightful night than cool water for the thirsty one in the dark,
No doubt in it and no impurity.