1. She said, "Why are your tears so black?
Though once they were rosy when you were slender."
١. وقائلةٍ ما بالُ دمعك أسوداً
وقد كان محمرّاً وأنتَ نحيلُ
2. I said, "My blood and tears have been spent in weeping.
This is but the darkness of my eyelids flowing."
٢. فقلت دمي والدمع أفناهما البكا
وهذا سوادُ المقلتين يَسيل