تزوجmarried الشيخthe old man بتركيةٍto a Turkish woman
تزوج الشيخ بتركيةٍ
تضمshe enfolds فيin الغربةbeing far from home أطرافهhis limbs
تضم في الغربة أطرافه
The old man married a Turkish woman,
The Sheikh married a Turkish woman
Who enfolds his limbs far from home.
Who embraced him in a foreign land
كأنهاas though she were منbecause of حسنهاher beauty شمعةٌa candle
كأنها من حسنها شمعةٌ
لكنbut علىamong العزابthe bachelors طوافهever making the rounds
لكن على العزاب طوافه
In her beauty, she is like a candle,
As if her beauty was a candle
But she makes the rounds among bachelors.
Yet he continued to wander unmarried
Sol 6.1