مَمْشُوقَةٌ في قَدِّها

تَحْكي لَنا قَدَّ الأَسَلْ

Slender of waist is she

Telling of days gone by

كَأَنَّها عُمْرُ الفَتى

وَالنَّارُ فيها كالأَجَلْ

As if she were the life of a youth

And in her a fire like fate