تَوَلَّت بِهم يَومَ الفراقِ مَطيُّهُم

بِأَعجلَ مِن خَفقِ الفؤادِ وَأَسرَعِ

Their mounts bore them away on the day of parting,

more hurried and swifter than the heart’s beating.

كَأَنَّ الحَشا وَالقَلبَ عِندَ تَذَكُّري

لَهُم وَرقاتٌ في قَضيبٍ مُزَعزَعِ

As though, whenever I remember them, my innermost being and heart

were leaves upon a shaken bough.