1. ونائحٍ في غُصونِ الأَيكِ أرَّقني

    وما عُنيتُ بشيءٍ ظَلَّ يَعْنيهِ

    And a mourner in the grove’s branches kept me awake,

    Yet none of what kept troubling him concerned me.

  2. مُطَوَّقٍ بعقودٍ ما يُزايلُهُ

    حتى تُفارِقهُ إحدى تَراقيهِ

    Collared with necklaces that never leave him,

    Until one of his collarbones parts from him.

  3. قد باتَ يَبكي لشجوٍ ما دَريتُ بهِ

    وبتُّ أبكي بشجوٍ ليس يدريهِ

    He spent the night weeping for a sorrow I knew nothing of,

    And I spent the night weeping with a sorrow he did not know.