وَإِنّي لَأَرضى مِن بُثَينَةَ بِالَّذي

لَوَ اَبصَرَهُ الواشي لَقَرَّت بَلابِلُه

I am pleased with Buthaina for that which

If the slanderer saw it, his nightingales would stop singing.

بِلا وَبِأَلّا أَستَطيعَ وَبِالمُنى

وَبِالوَعدِ حَتّى يَسأَمَ الوَعدَ آمِلُه

With neither promise nor appointment I can manage,

And with hope, until the one who hopes tires of the promise.

وَبِالنَظرَةِ العَجلى وَبِالحَولِ تَنقَضي

أَواخِرُهُ لا نَلتَقي وَأَوائِلُه

With the hasty glance and the tryst whose

Ending we do not meet, and the beginning.