لله ذاك الطرفُ كم فيه من
حيفٍ على الصب ومن حين
What an eye that is—how laden it is with
cruelty to the lovesick, and with doom!
لما حفظت السحر من جفنه
نظمت حرف النون في العين
Once I had learned magic by heart from his eyelid,
I wove the letter nūn into verse upon the eye.
Sol 5.6