1. If they ask me of the darkness of one
Who dawned no longer greeting me, though I greeted him,
١. إذا سألوني عن سوادِ عذارِ مَنْ
غَدا لا يُصافيني وظلتْتُ أُصافيهِ
2. I answer, "The musk's blots crept on his cheek;
So the softness of his face made its moles crawl over it."
٢. أجبتُ نمالُ المسكِ دبّتْ بوجههِ
فساخَ لِلُطْفِ الجِلدِ أَنملُها فيهِ