قَابلْتُ مِنها رَوْضَةً أَدبيَّةً

قَابلْتُ مِنها رَوْضَةً أَدبيَّةً

قَبَّلْتُ مِنها كُلَّ حُسْنٍ يُعْشَقُ

قَبَّلْتُ مِنها كُلَّ حُسْنٍ يُعْشَقُ

I encountered in it a garden of letters.

I met a garden of gentility in her

I kissed every beauty in it that is adored.

I kissed all her beauty that's loved

وَفَررْتُ بالنَّظمِ المُحِيطِ بِجانبي

وَفَررْتُ بالنَّظمِ المُحِيطِ بِجانبي

مِن لُجِّها والبيتُ حَوْلي خَنْدقُ

مِن لُجِّها والبيتُ حَوْلي خَنْدقُ

And I fled, with poetry encircling my side,

And I escaped with the rhymes surrounding me

from its deep waters, while the verse around me was a moat.

From her sea as the house around me was a trench