فما شككتُ وقد جاء البشيرُ به

أنَّ الشبابَ أتاني بَعدَ ما ذَهَبا

When the herald brought the news to me

That youth was coming back after it had gone

وقلتُ نفسي تُفَدِّي نفسَ مُرسِلِهِ

من كُلِّ سوءٍ ومن أَملى ومن كَتَبا

I said to myself, "Ransom yourself for the sender

From all troubles, and from hoping, and from writing."

وكادَ قلبي وقد قَلَّبتُهُ قَرِماً

إلى قراءَتِهِ أن يَخرِقَ الحُجُبا

And my heart, after I had made it anxious,

Was about to burst from reading it through the veils.