1. I said to the maiden whose lover had almost called her,
I have come to your tomb, so if today you visited

2. My gaunt form, you would not embrace me.
She bent her head and recited slowly, he said -

3. Abu-l-Tayyib the writer of Iraq:
Every flower looks lovelier in death

4. Like the full moons that set at break of day.
I said, “Let me live!” She said,

5. “How can you live, most passionate lover?”
If you denied your love before the folk

6. Who swore you were her son, by divorce!