هل لقتيل الحب من وادي

أم هل لعاني الحب من فادي

Is there anyone to pay the blood-price for one love has slain?

Or anyone to ransom love’s captive?

أم هل لدهري عودة نحوها

كمثل يوم مر في الوادي

Or will my days ever return to her,

like a day that passed in the valley?

ظللت فيه سابحاً صادياً

يا عجباً للسابح الصادي

There I remained, swimming yet parched with thirst—

what a wonder: a swimmer parched with thirst!

ضنيت يا مولاي وجداً فما

تبصرني الحاظ عؤادي

I have wasted away, my lord, from longing, so much that

the glances of my visitors can no longer discern me.

كيف اهتدى الوجد إلى غائبٍ

عن أعين الحاضر والبادي

How did longing find its way to one unseen

by the eyes of settled folk and Bedouin alike?

مل مداواتي طبيبي فقد

يرحمني للسقم حسّادي

My physician has grown weary of treating me, for

even my enviers pity me for my illness.