1. خَلَسَ البَينُ أَحمَدَ بنَ يَزيدِ

    لَيسَ فِعلُ الأَيّامِ بِالمَحمودِ

    Separation snatched away Ahmad ibn Yazid.

    What the days have done is not praiseworthy.

  2. وَنَأى الهَجرُ بِالَّذي لا أُسَمّي

    فَأَنا اليَومَ في القَريبِ البَعيدِ

    And estrangement carried far away the one I do not name.

    So today I am with the one who is near yet far.

  3. فَفِراقٌ أَصابَني مِن فِراقٍ

    وَفِراقٌ أَصابَني مِن صُدودِ

    So one parting befell me through departure,

    and another parting befell me through rejection.

  4. لَيسَ مَن كانَ غائِباً فَقَدَتهُ ال

    عَينُ حَقّاً كَالشاهِدِ المَفقودِ

    No absent one, lost to the

    eye, is truly like one present yet lost.