بِأَبي رَشاً هامَ الفُؤادُ بِحُبّه

وَتَقَطَّعَت مِن لَوعَةٍ أَفلاذُهُ

By the life of my father, his heart was obsessed with love,

And his innermost being was torn with grief,

شَغَفَ البَريَّةَ كُلَّها بِجَمالِهِ

وَأَشدُّهُم شَغَفاً بِهِ اُستاذُهُ

He enchanted the whole wilderness with his beauty,

And the one most passionately in love with him was his teacher.