كانَت قَناتي لا تَلينُ لِغامِزٍ

فَأَلانَها الإِصباحُ وَالإِمساءُ

My eyelids would not bow to a wink

Yet the morn and eve made them bend

وَدَعَوتُ رَبّي في السَلامَةِ جاهِداً

لِيُصِحَّني فَإِذا السَلامَةُ داءُ

I called on my Lord amid safety with zeal

That He may heal me, but safety itself was the bane