مَنْ عَاذِرِي مِنْ بَابِلِيٍّ طَرْفُهُ

وَلَعَمْره ما حَلَّ يَوماً بَابِلا

Who excuses my Babylonish lover though he has ruined me

By my life, never has he spent a day in Babylon!

أَعْتَدُّهُ خَوْطاً لِعَيْشِي نَاعِما

فَيَعُودُ خَطِّيّاً لِقَتْلِيَ ذَابِلا

I thought him a thread for a soft life

But he returns, a piercing blade that slaughters me.