مملوكةٌ عنديَ روميَّة

كم نشَّفت رأسي وما من شفه

In my keeping is a Rūmī slave-girl;

how often she has dried my head, though she is no towel.

بعثتها مع بعض شعري وقد

خلصت في الحالين من منشفه

I sent her off with some of my shiʿr—my verse, my hair—and

in both senses, I was rid of the drier.