1. When the flock appeared, I said to my friend
Don't be deluded by what cannot be attained

2. Do you hope to be blessed with happiness though I
Would be content with just one if luck were to favor

3. Among the last of the flock where it was exposed
A tall one excelling in ample flank yet forbidden

4. My friend, does the lone ungelded buck pause
Maybe it will meet a pasture and a loss

5. For in what we knew it to roam unfettered
The herd returns to it in the evening

6. Of those spreading shade, as for their bodies
They are smooth and their soil is soft

7. Oh how I wish for a shelter beneath their shade
Even if I remain with them bare and hungry

8. I would place beneath it an undamaged heart but would that
It be returned to me today while it is still unbroken

9. And I am too shy that my longing be seen
With my heart intact, no cracks within

10. And I loathe my eye for being miserly with its tears
When lightning has appeared in Hejaz, unleashed

11. I squander my sanity for my misguidance and I know
That I am losing yet I sell