كانت قناتي لا تلين لغامزٍ

فألأنَها الاصباح والامساءُ

My eyelids would not soften for any winkers

But dawn and dusk have made them gentle

ودعوتُ ربي بالسلامة جاهداً

ليُصحَني فاذا السلامةُ داءُ

And I called on my Lord desperately for wellbeing

That He may heal me, yet wellbeing itself is the illness