1. As if the heart one night was told it would
Visit Al-Amriya's Laila or find rest,

2. A wildcat whose company was confinement found herself
Doctoring it, its wing now broken.

3. It had two fledglings that clung to an empty nest—
The winds would flap their cradle.

4. So neither night nor morning brought what she hoped for,
Nor did the dawn grant her relief.