أسمعت ما قد قال لي ريمُ الفلا

أسمعت ما قد قال لي ريمُ الفلا

لمّا عدوتُ وراءهُ وتلفّت

لمّا عدوتُ وراءهُ وتلفّت

Have you heard what the gazelle of the wilderness said to me

I heard what the graceful sand-dune said to me,

when I ran after him and he turned around?

When I walked behind him and he looked back:

تُطاردُني ولست بلاحظي

تُطاردُني ولست بلاحظي

وسواي من تهوى بمقصريات

وسواي من تهوى بمقصريات

“You pursue me, yet you do not look at me;

"You pursue me yet I do not notice you,

and it is someone other than me you love—[بمقصريات is unclear].”

Just like those who pine for the unattainable."