هَل لِداعيكَ مُجيبُ

أَم لِشاكيكَ طَبيبُ

Is there a respondent for your supplicant?

Or a healer for your complainant?

يا قَريباً حينَ يَنأى

حاضِراً حينَ يَغيبُ

O near one when distant,

Present when absent.

كَيفَ يَسلوكَ مُحِبٌّ

زانَهُ مِنكَ حَبيبُ

How can a lover endure

When his beloved is aloof?

إِنَّما أَنتَ نَسيمٌ

تَتَلَقّاهُ القُلوبُ

You are but a breeze

That hearts receive.

قَد عَلِمنا عِلمَ ظَنٍّ

هُوَ لا شَكَّ مُصيبُ

We have known with conjectural knowledge

Which is undoubtedly right,

أَنَّ سِرَّ الحُسنِ مِمّا

أَضمَرَت تِلكَ الجُيوبُ

That the secret of beauty lies

In what those hearts conceal.