1. The meanings of your beauty were precise in my thoughts,
Away from the gaze of slanderers and understanding of critics.

2. Oh days that have passed with you!
Between the dunes of Najd and those plains.

3. Days of unity in which I got what I love,
And made many proposals.

4. Today I remain after them,
Like a bird whose wings are clipped.

5. No strength for one who flew from his nest,
Nor for one who rested and took comfort.

6. I refused to graze among the stars of nightfall,
A captive of a night that has no serenity.

7. You knew, oh oppressor, after meeting
And the hardness of heart towards dawn.