قد بدا للعين ما

أظهرَه الطالع

What the eye began to see

Was revealed by fate

وأرتدي

حُسن الدمى

And I donned

The beauty of the idols

مظهره

الطامع

In their appearance

The aspiring

وابتدا

يطلبُ ما

And began

To seek what

يستره

الطابع

Nature hides

Through the adornments of beautiful nights

من خلالٍ هنَّ حلى

كلِّ فتى ثابت

Every steadfast young man

During delightful nights on

في ليالٍ هنّ على

الحاصلِ الفائت

What has passed

How much did he come

كم أتى

يطلبني

Seeking me

In his solitude

من خلته

المرتقى

The climber

And the young man

والفتى

تجذبني

His solitude attracts me

To meet him

خلته

للقا

And when

His service veils me

ومتى

تحجبني

And we meet

In the shadows is the state of longing

خدمتُه

والتقى

Bowing away from the faded

In the beauty behind a speaking

في الظلالِ حال الطلا

يخر عن باهت

Or silent landmark

It began

في جمال خلف ملا

ناطق أو صامت

What the standing lifted

In his assumption

قد بدا

ما شاله

And it became

When the kneeling attained it

الواقفُ

في زعمه

In his judgment

Reciting

وغدا

إذ ناله

What the predecessor said

In his verse

العاكفُ

في حكمه

Beauty is a stand on

A gazelle of steadfast construction

مُنشداً

ما قاله

No decline in love, no

Deviating from its steadfast pact

السالفُ

في نظمِه

الجمالُ وقفٌ على

ظبي بنى ثابت

لا زوالَ في الحبِّ لا

عن عهدِه الثابتْ