1. Rabi departed from his family, so farewell to intimacy,
And the tents of Harsha have been folded up, so farewell to neighborliness,

2. Flirtatious singing girls arouse even the forbearing to youthfulness,
Yet they are worn-out antiquities, so farewell to the ruins,

3. For Layla and her fellow maidens, as though they were
Ewes of the pen challenged by the white-faced sheep,

4. By what I see of those abodes and their inhabitants,
While they collectively were friendly dwellings,

5. I wondered if the abode of Rabab had become distant,
Or if an infirmity arose that your heart took flight,

6. The passionate have awakened and abandoned desire,
Yet trickery persists among men,

7. Give her up as something that never was, or as one who has emigrated from the abode,
Or whom the tombs have hidden away.

8. Has it been severed, O Might, what was between us,
And, O Might, did misgivings about you arise in me?

9. When it is said, "This is the abode of Might,"
Passion drives me to it, and the tidings hasten me,

10. I feign madness, so that the talebearers may see
That I am bound for your abode as an emigrant,

11. O Might, would that estrangement, when it came between us,
Had brought me your love for sale from you, O merchant!

12. You it was who endeared to me every short woman,
And the diminutive ones know nothing of that,

13. I gave my attention to short-statured belles, and did not intend
The shortcoming of steps - evil are slanderous women!