1. فتاة مذ أردت القرب منها

    برمز إشارتي لا باللسان

    A girl—when I wished to draw near to her

    Through the sign of my gesture, not through speech—

  2. تخافت ضمن بردتها وقالت

    وحق سواد عيني لن تراني

    Whispered within her cloak and said:

    “I swear by the blackness of my eye: you will never see me.”