وجمرةِ حبٍّ بتُّ أُصلى سعيرَها

لها حرقةٌ بين اللها والحيازمِ

The embers of a passionate love I used to tend and pray

It burned within my very soul from night through to the day

وغماءُ مِنْ وجدٍ قديمٍ كشفتها

بصبرِ بصيرٍ بالعواقب حازم

From longstanding sorrows long concealed its veil stripped bare

With wise forbearance and patient wisdom hope held sway

فلا تعجبي إمّا قطعتُ علاقتي

بطوعي ولم أقرعْ لها سنَّ نادم

So wonder not that I have ended what between us lay

By choice, though no vindictive soul bid our love fray

فصرفيَ عنك النفسَ ما تعلمينه

عزيزٌ عليها بعد طولِ التلازم

Turn from yourself what you now know cannot hold sway

Though once to me its comfort was my mainstay

ولكنْ بدا لي منك ما لا أطيقه

وإنْ كنت فرداً باحتمال العظائم

For from you came what I could not bear, though mighty I

With strength to endure life's heaviest weights unflinching by