1. إذا اقتبسَ الهلالُ النورَ منْهُ

    زَوى عنه الجبينَ وقالَ مَن هُو

    When the crescent borrows light from him,

    He turns his brow away from him and says, “Who is he?

  2. أيطمَع أنْ يكونَ غلامَ وَجْهي

    وليسَ لكاذبِ الأطماعِ وَجْهُ

    Does he hope to be my face's servant?

    And one with vain ambitions has no face.

  3. فأمّا إذ ألحَّ عليَّ حتىّ

    يكونَ شراكَ نَعليَ فليكُنْهُ

    But since he has importuned me so that

    he might be the strap of my sandal, let him be it.”