1. After drawing near, he shunned me, and was cold to me,
A moon putting to shame the two moons.
١. صدَّني بعد اقترابٍ وجفاني
قَمَرٌ يخَجلُ منه القَمرانِ
2. I do not call him by name out of jealousy,
Except that I am the one who conceals him.
٢. لستُ أَدعو باسمه ضَنّاً به
غير أَني الذي أخْفِيه كانِ
3. My thirst for him a thirst that has no end,
Would that, because of what he denied me, I had never known the first of it!
٣. ظَمَأي فيه ظَما آخِره
ليتين أَوَّلُه ممّا عَراني