1. الف السفح جفن عيني وفي السف

    ح رموز لعبن بالاجفان

    My eyelid grew familiar with the slope, and on the slope

    are signs that played upon eyelids.

  2. آه من قاعه ففيها من النف

    ح الذي حمت حوله معنيان

    Ah, its valley floor! For there, the fragrance

    around which I hovered bears two meanings.

  3. جئتها سائلا ودمعي مثلي

    ساكن ناطق بغير لسان

    I came to it asking, and my tears, like me,

    were still, yet spoke without a tongue.

  4. انا لفظا سألتها وهو معنى

    فكلانا في سوحها سائلان

    I questioned it in words, and my tears in meaning;

    so in its courtyards we were both supplicants.

  5. وحكت دار مية فلهذا

    سح دمعي بالعارض الهتان

    And it resembled Mayya's dwelling; for this

    my tears poured like a cloud's ceaseless rain.

  6. سيل عيني عند تلك البوادي

    سال منه لاجلها عينان

    The torrent of my eye, amid those wilds—

    from it, for their sake, two springs flowed.

  7. واذا قلت اين داري قالوا

    ما لمن غاب الفه من مكان

    And when I said, 'Where is my home?' they said,

    'There is no place for one whose beloved is gone.'

  8. كلّ نطقي وان يقال جدا لا

    هي هذي اقول اين زماني

    My speech faltered; and even if it is said in earnest, 'No,

    this is it,' I say, 'Where are my days?'