1. Whenever light has opened, light has shone bright
So why are you so busy while prose is scattered about?

2. And for spring there are meadows, whenever it smiles
The drunk weeps for the joys of wine.

3. As for Damascus, it has gardens brought forth quickly
For those who seek the youths and maidens there.

4. No moon has sung on its strings there
Except a moonlike one and Shahrur has sung it.

5. Oh how wonderful, the shields of water woven
By the fingers of wind, if only they were not false.

6. The blamers envy the color of radiance out of spite
How long will I be envied and abandoned?

7. They turned me away from loving the one who turned away
And whoever loves gently, he is excused.