1. أَلقى يَدَيهِ عَلى صَدري فَقُلتُ لَهُ

    هُن الفُؤادِ الَّذي لا زِلتَ تَصرَعُهُ

    He laid his hands upon my chest, so I said to him:

    Here is the heart that you never cease to lay low.

  2. وَحينَ مَسَّتهُ أَيديكَ الحِسانِ فَقَد

    أَبرَأَت مِنّي مَحلاً أَنتَ موجِعُهُ

    And when your lovely hands touched it, they indeed

    healed a place within me that you yourself make sore.

  3. فَقالَ لا تَطمَعَن عَينايَ قَد رُمتا

    عَلَيهِ نِبلاً وَلا يَخفاكَ مَوضِعُهُ

    He said: Do not hope; my eyes have shot

    arrows at it, and its place is no secret to you.

  4. وَمالَ قَدى فَجارَها وَاِتَّبَعا

    سَهماً فَأَحبَبتُ أَدري أَينَ مَوقِعُهُ

    And he leaned—[the intervening wording is unclear]—and the two followed

    an arrow; so I wished to know where it had struck.