لِي مِنْ جَمالِكَ شَاهِدٌ وَكَفِيلُ

أَنّي عَنِ الأَشْوَاقِ لَسْتُ أَحُولُ

For me your beauty's witness and guarantor

That longing cannot make my heart grow old

يَا مَنْ تقاصَر لَيْلُهُ لِسُرورِهِ

لَيْلِي كَمَا شَاءَ الغَرامُ طَويلُ

O you whose night for joy is made so short

While my night's made by love unending long

غَادَرْتني بِحشىً تَذُوب وَمُقْلةٍ

عَبْرَى وَقلْبٍ حَظُّه التَّعْلِيلُ

You left me melting sighs and weeping eyes

My tears and heart whose lot is to bemoan

في كُلِّ جَفْنٍ لِلتَّسَهُّدِ مَوْطِنٌ

وَبِكُلِّ خَدٍّ لِلدُّمُوعِ مَسِيلُ

In every eyelid tears have made their home

Down every cheek tears have a stream they run