كم قلتُ إذ عاينته لمتيّمٍ
في حُبِّه صَبّ الفُؤادِ شجيّهِ
How often, when I beheld him, I said to one enthralled—
his heart impassioned and anguished by love of him:
كيفَ احتِيالُكَ في حَياتكَ بَعدما
لَقِيَتكَ عَيناهُ بسَيفِ سَميِّهِ
“How can you contrive to remain alive after
his eyes have met you with his namesake’s sword?”
Sol 5.6