تَأتي الدَلالَ سَجِيَّةً وَتَصَنُّعاً

وَأَراكَ في حالَي دَلالِكَ مُبدِعا

Delusion comes to you pretentiously and affectedly

Yet I see you in my state a creative inspirer

تِه كَيفَ شِئتَ فَما الجَمالُ بِحاكِمٍ

حَتّى يُطاعَ عَلى الدَلالِ وَيُسمَعا

Roam however you wish for beauty has no ruler

To be obeyed about delusion or to be heard

لَكَ أَن يُرَوِّعَكَ الوُشاةُ مِنَ الهَوى

وَعَلَيَّ أَن أَهوى الغَزالَ مُرَوَّعا

It is for you that the slanderers of love frighten you

And it is for me to love the frightened gazelle

قالوا لَقَد سَمِعَ الغَزالُ لِمَن وَشى

وَأَقولُ ما سَمِعَ الغَزالُ وَلا وَعى

They said the gazelle has heard the slanderer

And I say the gazelle heard nothing and was unaware

أَنا مَن يُحِبُّكَ في نِفارِكَ مُؤنِساً

وَيُحِبُّ تيهَكَ في نِفارِكَ مَطمَعا

I am the one who loves you in your aloofness, a companion

And loves your wandering in your aloofness, hopeful

قَدَّمتُ بَينَ يَدَيَّ أَيّامَ الهَوى

وَجَعَلتُها أَمَلاً عَلَيكَ مُضَيَّعا

I put before me the days of love

And made them a hope in you wasted

وَصَدَقتُ في حُبّي فَلَستُ مُبالِياً

أَن أُمنَحَ الدُنيا بِهِ أَو أُمنَعا

And I was sincere in my love so I do not care

If I am given the world through it or deprived

يا مَن جَرى مِن مُقلَتَيهِ إِلى الهَوى

صِرفاً وَدارَ بِوَجنَتَيهِ مُشعشَعا

O you whose glance flowed to love inclining

And turned between your cheeks flashing

اللَهَ في كَبِدٍ سَقَيتَ بِأَربَعٍ

لَو صَبَّحوا رَضوى بِها لَتَصَدَّعا

God, in a liver you watered with four

If they were to greet it in the morning, it would crack