أَعاذِلَ أَقصَري وَدَعي بَياتي

فَاِنَّكَ ذاتُ لَوماتٍ حُماتِ

Reproach me no more, and cease your blaming,

For you are fault-finding and blame-inflaming,

فَاِنَّ الصُبحَ مُنتَظَرٌ قَريبٌ

وَإِنَّكَ بِالمَلامَةِ لَن تُفاتي

The dawn, which soon will break, is awaited,

And with rebukes, you'll not be sated.

نَأت لَيلى فَلَيلى لا تُواتي

وَضَنَّت بِالمَوَدَّةِ وَالبَناتِ

My Leila came, but Leila won't be stayed,

She's left with love and girls arrayed.

وَحَلَّت دَارُها سَفوانَ بَعدي

فَذا قارٍ فَمُنخَرَقَ الفُراتِ

Her home in absence mine is but disgraced,

A Tigris torn, its banks displaced.

تُراعي الريفَ ذائِبَةً عَلَيها

ظِلالُ أَلَفَّ مُختَلِطِ النَباتِ

She tends the farmland, wandering its breadths,

'Neath shades in thousand plants' green depths.

فَدَعها أَو تَناوَلَها بِعَنسٍ

مِن العَيديّ في قُلُصِ شِخاتِ

So leave her be, or gently her upbraid

With sweet censure that upholds and aids.