يا غَزال السَفح مِن وادي زرود

خف مِن اللَهْ وَارعَ لي تِلك العُهود

O gazelle of the valley's slope from Wadi Zarud

Be wary of God and beware those covenants for me

جد لِطَرفي بِالكَرى وَهناً فَما

ذُقت عُمري في الهَوى طَعم الهجود

Find comfort for my eyes with a glance, though never

Have I tasted in passion the savor of intimacy

زَخرَف الواشي أَقاويلاً بِها

حلت عَن عَهدي وَأَشمت الحَسود

The slanderer adorned his words about me

So I broke from my pact and enemies rejoiced

لَيتَ لَم أَرج وِصالاً زائِداً

مِنكَ قَد عَوضتَني مِنهُ الصُدود

Would that I'd never hoped for more affection

Since you've recompensed me for it with estrangement

آه وَأَشوقي لِأَيام اللُقا

لَيتَ ذِكراها عَلى سَمعي تَعود

Oh, my yearning for the days of meeting

Would that remembering them might recur to my hearing

هَل لِماضي عَيشِنا مِن أَويةٍ

أَو لِظَبي من بدي أَمسى شرود

Can our past life shelter me somewhere

Or a gazelle that was my companion, now wandering?

وَأَرى غُصن النَقا مالت بِهِ

نَشوة الصَهباء ما بَينَ البُرود

I see the bending branch of sincere friendship

Intoxicated with the zeal of youth among the sands

ذو لحاظ أُرسلت في فَترة

شَقَت الأَكباد مِن قَبل الجُلود

A hard-eyed one sent during a respite

That split the hearts before flaying the skins

إِن يَكُن لدمي فُؤادي جفنَهُ

طالَ ما أَدميت بِاللَحظ الخدود

If my heart has an eyelid steeped in my blood

Long have I weeped staining my cheeks red

وَأَنا المَدعو بِقَومي منجكاً

وَبِفَضلي أَصبح الأَعدا شُهود

When I'm titled amongst my people "star of good fortune"

And through my merit foes have witnessed success

فَسَلام دائِماً مني عَلى

مِن بِهِ الرَحمَن قَد أَحيا الوجود

So forever peace from me upon

He through whom the Merciful brought existence into being