1. Though I see his beauty's attestation grants me life
For lovers find in seeing beauty life's delight
١. وَإِنّي لَحَيٌّ إِن شَهدت جَمالَهُ
فَإِنّ شهودَ الحِبِّ نِصفُ الحياةِ
2. Yet if his beauty from my sight should disappear
Through absence, for its distance death is halfway here
٢. وَمَيتٌ إِذا قَد غابَ عَنّي جَماله
بِبُعدٍ فَإِنّ البعدَ نِصفُ المَماتِ