وقال أيضاً:

وقال أيضاً:

فقلت له غبله فقال

فقلت له غبله فقال

And he also said:

He also said:

I said to him, 'A kiss,' and he replied:

So I said to him, take my cheeks, he said

خدها بوجناتي باديت

خدها بوجناتي باديت

تحرقني بالنيران على ايش

تحرقني بالنيران على ايش

'Take it on my cheeks.' I began:

Give them to me with your beauty manifest

'Why do you burn me with fire,

You burn me with fires, for what reason?

وانا لامرك ما عصيت

وانا لامرك ما عصيت

قال لي فاصداغي زهت

قال لي فاصداغي زهت

when I have never disobeyed your command?'

And I have not disobeyed your command

He said to me, 'My side-locks have blossomed,

He said, my cheeks have withered

جناتها في الجانبين

جناتها في الجانبين

فحل نيران وجنتي

فحل نيران وجنتي

their gardens on either side.

Their gardens on both sides

So quell the flames of my cheek,

So unleash the fires of my cheeks

واجني قطوف الوجنتين

واجني قطوف الوجنتين

لما تبدى في حنين

لما تبدى في حنين

and gather the fruits of both cheeks.'

And pick the fruits of both gardens

When he appeared at Ḥunayn,

When you appear full of yearning

واضمر لقتلي حين خطر

واضمر لقتلي حين خطر

نظمت فوق صفح الخدود

نظمت فوق صفح الخدود

and secretly intended to kill me as he passed,

And plot my murder when it comes to mind

I strung across the surface of the cheeks

I composed above the page of cheeks

عقيق دمعي فانتشر

عقيق دمعي فانتشر

وحين رآني وابتسم

وحين رآني وابتسم

the carnelian of my tears, and it scattered.

The carnelian of my tears spreading

And when he saw me and smiled,

And when he saw me and smiled

وعن صفا وجهو سفر

وعن صفا وجهو سفر

اذكرني ايام العذيب

اذكرني ايام العذيب

and unveiled the radiance of his face,

And the brightness of his face uncovered

he reminded me of the days at al-ʿUdhayb,

Remember me in days of torment

وطيبها في الابرقين

وطيبها في الابرقين

وبذر اويقات الصفا

وبذر اويقات الصفا

and their sweetness at al-Abraqayn,

And its goodness in flashes

and sowed brief moments of serenity,

And sow the times of purity

لما تبدى في حنين

لما تبدى في حنين

نظمي المذهب قد سما

نظمي المذهب قد سما

when he appeared at Ḥunayn.

When you appear full of yearning

My gilded verse has soared;

My prose is sublime, it ascends

في افق معناه ينجلي

في افق معناه ينجلي

ونظم ضدي ذا الصدى

ونظم ضدي ذا الصدى

in the horizon of its meaning, it shines clear.

In the horizon of its meaning shining

And my rival's verse, this rust—

And my opposing prose

لو كان ذهب ما ينطلي

لو كان ذهب ما ينطلي

أنا بيدي ما علوت

أنا بيدي ما علوت

even were it gold, it would not take gilding.

Even if gold does not shine

I have not risen by my own hand;

It is not I who exalted

العالي سماه في علي

العالي سماه في علي

تجمد يا صدى قد هوا

تجمد يا صدى قد هوا

the lofty one—his heaven is on high [wording unclear].

The most high, its ascent is through me

Freeze, O rust that has already fallen,

Freeze, oh echo, for it has fallen

ونجم فوق الفرقدين

ونجم فوق الفرقدين

وبحر نظمي صار مديد

وبحر نظمي صار مديد

and a star is above the two Farqads.

And a star above the two eyelids

And the sea of my verse has grown vast,

And the sea of my prose stretches wide

وأنت دون القلتين

وأنت دون القلتين

while you amount to less than two jarfuls.

While you are below the two cheeks