سَوادُ فَرْعٍ التي هَامَ الفُؤَادُ بِهَا

سَوادُ فَرْعٍ التي هَامَ الفُؤَادُ بِهَا

وحظُّ عاشقِها في اللَّونِ سِيَّانِ

وحظُّ عاشقِها في اللَّونِ سِيَّانِ

The blackness of the tresses of her whom the heart adores

The darkness of the branch I was infatuated with

and her lover’s lot are alike in hue:

And the fortune of its lover in color is loss

لَيْلانِ ضَاعَ صَباحُ الوَصْلِ بينَهُمَا

لَيْلانِ ضَاعَ صَباحُ الوَصْلِ بينَهُمَا

فَأْيَسْ إذَا اكتَنَفَ الإصْبَاحَ لَيْلانِ

فَأْيَسْ إذَا اكتَنَفَ الإصْبَاحَ لَيْلانِ

two nights, between which the dawn of union is lost;

A night was lost between them in the morning of union

so despair when two nights enclose the dawn.

So he despaired when the morning shrouded the night