ولَمّا دَعانِي داعِي الهَوى

وأخْلَفَ ما كُنْتُ أمّلْتُهُ

When the caller of passion called me

And failed to fulfill what I had hoped

ولَمْ يَبْقَ غيْرُ البُكا حِيلَةٌ

بَكَيْتُ بمِقْدارِ ما نِلْتُهُ

With nothing left but weeping as recourse

I wept according to what I attained