عَذيريَ من بدر السماء لحظتُه

فوكَّل إنساني برعيْ الفراقِدِ

My excuse is that I glimpsed his full moon face

So I left my humanity to tend the tombs

وآنستُه فازداد نفراً كأنه

وإيايَ ظَبي قد أحسَّ بصائدِ

And found him companionable, yet he recoiled

Like a deer with me who sensed a hunter nearby

لينكر ما أشكو بخلوة قلبه

وليس لشكْوى واجدٍ غيرُ واجدِ

That he might deny what I lament in his heart's solitude

For no complainer finds a confidant but another complainer