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I rebuked him for keeping

أخجلته بعتابي

1. I rebuked him for keeping
His distance and aloofness from me.

١. أَخجَلتُه بِعِتابي
عَلى بعادي وصَدّي

2. He said, “Do not reproach me -
Can you not see my stature?

٢. فَقالَ لي لا تُعاتِبْ
أَلَستَ تُبصِرُ قَدّي

3. Does not my shyness proclaim itself
In my cheek's roseate glow?

٣. وَقَد تَنَدّى حَياءً
بطَلِّه وردُ خدّي

4. Be perfumed by it," he said;
"It is the water of my rose garden."

٤. وَقالَ مِنهُ تَطيَّبْ
فَإِنّهُ ماءُ وَردي