لَعَمري لَئِن كانَ المُقَرِّبُ مِنكُمُ

هَوىً صادِقاً إِنّي لَمُستَوجِبُ القُربِ

By my life, if he who brings you closer

Is sincere in his love, I deserve such closeness,

سَأَرعى وَما اِستَوجَبتِ مِنّي رِعايَةً

وَأَحفَظُ ما ضَيَّعتِ مِن حُرمَةِ الحُبِّ

I will tend what you have not tended in me,

And guard what you neglected of love's sanctity.

مَتى تُبصِريني يا ظَلومُ تَبَيَّني

شَمائِلَ بادي البَثِّ مُنصَدِعِ القَلبِ

When will you see me, oh unjust one, and realize

The symptoms of one whose inner secrets and heart are torn open?

بَرِياً تَمَنّى الذَنبَ لَمّا ظَلَمتِهِ

لِكَيما يُقالَ الصَرمُ مِن سَبَبِ الذَنبِ

Innocent, he wished for sin when you wronged him,

So that it would be said his death was caused by his sin.

وَقَد كُنتُ أَشكو عَتبَها وَعِتابَها

فَقَد فَجَعَتني بِالعِتابِ وَبِالعَتبِ

And I used to complain of her rebukes and reproaches

She distressed me with reproach and blame;

وَإِنّي لَأَرعى غَيبَها وَأَحوطُهُ

وَإِن كُنتُ مِنها في عَناءٍ وَفي كَربِ

Yet I tend to her absence and protect it,

Even when she gives me misery and distress.