فُؤادٌ كَما شاء الهَوى يَتَحَرَّقُ

وَدَمْعٌ كَما شَاءَ البُكا يَتَدَفَّقُ

A heart consumed, as passion decreed, by fire

And tears that flowed, as grief demanded, in floods

وَمَأْسُورَةِ الأَجفانِ عَنْ سِنَةِ الكَرى

وَلكِنَّها في حَلْبَةِ الدَّمْعِ تُطْلَقُ

Yet shackled eyelids from showing their age

But in circles of tears they were set free

وَصَبٍّ غَدا مِثْلَ الغَرِيقِ كَما تَرى

بِما وَجَدَتْهُ كَفُّهُ يَتَعَلَّقُ

A young man who became, as you see, drowned

By what his palms grasped, clinging on