وَلَيلٍ بِهِ الخودُ زارَت مَحلّي

وَإِنّي سَقيمُ الجَفا وَالأَرَق

By night when she came to my abode

I was sick with sleeplessness and heartache

بَدا صُبحهُ غِيرة حينَ زارَت

وَأَبدَى التّنَفّس حتّى اِنفَلَق

At the gleam of dawn she came to visit me

And kept sighing deeply till she fainted