فؤاد بين هجران وبين

قضى أمد الحياة بفرقتينِ

My heart between estrangement and unity

Has spent the course of life in two separations

قضى أو كاد لولا زور طيف

غفت عين السهاد فزار عيني

It did spend or it nearly did, had not the apparition of his phantom

Visited my eyes when sleep visited his eyes

ظفرت بلثم راحته وراحي

وفزت من الوصال براحتين

I attained the kiss of his cheek and my solace

And won from the union two comforts