1. A perfume whose every feature is a nose,
As though its face had a nose behind it too.
١. وَقَينَةٍ كُلُّ وَجهِها أَنفُ
كَأَنَّما وَجهُها لَها خَلفُ
2. It sang, and left within me not one limb
That didn't wish it were a hand.
٢. غَنَّت فَلَم تَبقَ فِيَّ جارِحَةٌ
إِلّا تَمَنَّيتُ أَنَّها كَفُّ