كاتبْتَني وأذنتَ لي بكتابةٍ

مني إليكَ لقدْ فُتنت فُتونا

You wrote to me, granting me leave

To write back from me to you - I'm smitten, smitten so!

يا مالكي بجميلِهِ منْ ذا رأى

عَبْداً سوايَ مكاتباً مأذونا

My master, who has seen with his eyes

A servant like me, permitted to correspond?