خرجنا إلى صيد الظِّباءِ فصادَني

هناك غزالٌ أدعجُ العينِ أَحورُ

We went out to hunt the gazelles, and there

A gazelle with beautiful eyes enchanted me

غزالٌ كأنّ البدرَ حلّ جبينَه

وفي خدّه الشِّعرى المنيرةُ تَزهرُ

A gazelle whose forehead seemed lit by the full moon

And on whose radiant cheek the Pleiades blossomed

فصاد فُؤادي إذ رماني بسَهمه

وسهمُ غزالِ الإنسِ طرفٌ ومِحجَرُ

So my heart was struck when he shot me with his arrow

The arrow of a human gazelle has glance and rocks

فيا من رأى ظبياً يصيدُ ومن رأى

أخا قَنَصٍ يُصطَادُ قَهراً ويُقسَرُ

Oh you who saw a hunter hunting gazelles

And who saw a fellow hunter hunted, defeated and overpowered