1. A night whose length seemed to me a year
My eyelids spent it lamenting and complaining
١. وليلةٍ طولُها عليَّ سَنَه
باتَ بها الجَفنُ نادِباً وَسَنَه
2. Of four nights, one amongst them
Like bad deeds with goodness between them
٢. بأربعٍ بينَهُنّ واحدةٌ
كَسّيئاتٍ وبينها حَسَنه