أَيا سائِلي عنْ قَدِّ محبوبيَ الذي

فُتِنْتُ به وَجْداً وَهِمْتُ غَراما

O you who ask of my love's stature, whom

I'm smitten with passion for, fancying infatuation -

أَبى قِصَرَ الأَغصانِ ثم رأى القنا

طِوالا فأضحى بينَ ذاكَ قَواما

He refused the shortness of boughs, but saw the spear

Tall, so he became, between that, straight.