وافى كَتابُكَ أَسْنى ما يَعُودُ بِهِ

وَفْدُ الْمَسَرَّةِ مِنِّي إِذْ يُوافِينِي

Your book brought the best gift

That the envoy of joy could bring me

فَظَلْتُ أَطْوِيهِ مِنْ شَوْقٍ وَأَنْشُرُهُ

وَالشَّوْقُ يَنْشُرُنِي فِيهِ وَيَطْوِينِي

So I kept folding it in yearning and unfolding it

While yearning unfolds me in it and folds me