1. My night was long by the garden side
With my beloved's maid and chrysanthemum beside

2. O lovers, rise, let us together cry
And to the Merciful our sorrows confide

3. When her maid brought tidings of her boss
She wept for me, my suffering did embody

4. She pleaded on my behalf and swore
Upon what she recalled solemnly

5. She sent to me gum she had chewed
Above an apple and basil beside

6. With her miswak that Allah did endow
Upon her from the purest branches wide

7. I found a scent like that of paradise
When I smelled that gum she sent to me

8. As if the miswak was from Fawz herself
The purest plant in the gardens heavenly

9. My people what is sweeter than the draught
From her mouth that she let me drink bounteously

10. I wonder if to her I can find a way
To see her in seclusion privately

11. O maids intercede for me, O maids
Stop describing what has tied my tongue eternally