1. عَشَقْتُ الظلامَ وعِفْتُ الصباحَ

    إذا كان أَفْلَتَ منِّي قَنَصْ

    I loved the darkness and loathed the dawn

    When some quarry had escaped me.

  2. كأنَّ الدُّجَى وجهُ زنجيَّةٍ

    مليحٌ بدا الصبحُ فيه بَرَصْ

    As though night's darkness were a Black woman's face—

    Beautiful, with dawn appearing on it as patches of vitiligo.