لَولا الرَقيب غَداةَ زَمّوا الأَينَقا

لَسَقَيتُ بالتَوديعِ قَلباً مُحرَقا

Had there been no watcher when they packed to depart at dawn

I would have bidden farewell to a burning heart

صُنتُ الدُموعَ فأَظهَرَتِ النَوى

مِنّـــــــــــي

I held back my tears but my eyes betrayed

My sorrow

وَجَعَلتُ أَنظُر في خِلالِ مَطيّهم

مُتَلَفِّقاً حَذَرَ المُراقِبِ مُشفِقا

And I watched from between their mounts

Keeping wary of the watcher, apprehensive,

لَو كانَ صَرفُ الدَهر أَصبَحَ ذائِعاً

لِلبُعدِ أَصبَحَ جا

If the turns of fate were common knowledge

Parting would have become easy