يقول لي العذال لما عشقته

وبعض جواب الصبِّ فيه لطائف

When the tormentor said to me, for loving him,

With some of the youth's witty retort in it:

أيصبيك منه يا أخا الوجد ناظرٌ

مهنده ماض فقلت وسالف

"Does wakefulness waste you, O brother of passion, a watcher

Whose sleep is passed?" I said: "Or one who discoursed."