1. Do not reject, for perhaps rejection leads to death,
While the rejected was seeking solace, undeterred by rejection.

2. He found disfavor in your pleasure and dressed
In the garb of sickness due to your love's coldness.

3. He wanted to hide his passion yet
He could find no escape from revealing his secret.

4. Whenever the breeze blew, memories of passion
Flooded his eyes with yearning and ardour.

5. When lightning flashed in the cloud,
It told of this and that, kindling and flames.

6. O Allah, grant the land of Rusafa pleasant days
Like the gentle breeze, soft and dewy.

7. And gardens where I wander, infatuated,
Although I am deprived of dwelling in them forever.

8. Setting out while my tears, like drops of musk and amber,
Were shed by the puffing wind the day we parted.

9. I wonder, will time bring back the days
When sweet life bore witness that it was bliss?

10. And open space in a meadow with a stream
Where our wishes could find respite?

11. Where we would flirt with the narcissi, their lids still dewy,
And gingerly step over the myrtle's branches.

12. The gardens would wink at the eye
As flowers are piled up in a heap.

13. Under a night as lovely as daylight,
When youth was clipped of its bloom and prime.

14. And Pleiades beside the moon telling
Of comforts, signalling the waves to surge.