1. Has any news come of Sulaima since she went away?
Every infatuated man finds comfort in the news.

2. Woe is me from the departing company when they marched off,
With her, while my heart recites her name in sequence.

3. I met the slanderers with a heart exhausted from grief,
And the censurers with an eye bleary from sleeplessness.

4. And I follow the star relating the tale of her jewels in my sight,
And deprive the familiar moon from my gaze.

5. Remembrance portrays her to the eye traveling,
And he who saw her cannot wish for the moon.