يا مَسقِطَ العَلَمَينِ مِن رَملِ الحِمى

لي عِندَ ظَبيَتِكَ النَوارِ دُيونِ

O resting-place of the two standards amid the sands of the protected pasture,

I am owed debts by your gazelle, al-Nawār.

شَرَتِ الفُؤادَ رَخيصَةً أَعلاقُهُ

وَمضى يَعَضُّ بَنانَهُ المَغبونُ

She bought the heart cheaply, though precious were its treasures,

and the cheated one went away biting his fingertips.

هَيهاتَ يَتبَعُني إِلى سُلوانِهِ

قَلبٌ أَصابَ بِهِ الظِباءُ العينُ

Never will there follow me, on the way to forgetting him,

a heart the wide-eyed gazelles have struck.

سَنَحَت لَنا في المُشرِقاتِ عَشِيَّةً

وَمِنَ السِهامِ مَحاجِرٌ وَعُيونُ

One evening she came into view among the radiant women,

and among the arrows were eye-rims and eyes.

لا العَفُّ عَفٌّ حينَ يَملِكُ لُبَّهُ

تِلكَ اللِحاظُ وَلا الأَمينُ أَمينُ

The chaste man is not chaste when his mind is mastered

by those glances, nor does the trustworthy remain trustworthy.

لَو أَنَّ قَومَكَ نَصَّلوا أَرماحَهُم

بِعُيونِ سِربِكَ ما أَبَلَّ طَعينُ

If your people tipped their spears

with the eyes of your herd, no one pierced would ever recover.