ما بالُ هذا الجسم يا فتنتي

مَنْ سرقَ الديباجُ من حبسِ

What is with this body, O my temptation?

Who stole the brocade from the confinement

وبعضهُ في كفنٍ واسعٍ

وبعضهُ في ضيقِهِ الرمسِ

Some of it is in a spacious shroud

And some of it in the narrowness of chalk

لكلِّ شيءٍ حسنٍ زينةٌ

وزينةُ الخمرةِ في الكاسِ

Everything beautiful has its adornment

And the adornment of wine is in the cup

والبدرُ في ديباجةٍ يجتلى

وأنتِ في عشرٍ وفي خمسِ

The moon shines in brocade

While you are in ten and five

شريعةٌ تنسخُ من يومها

كلَّ الذي قد شرعتْ أمسِ

A law that revokes from its day

All that was legislated yesterday

ولو تزيدُ الحسنَ أثوابُهُ

لبانَ نقصَ الحسنِ في الشمسِ

If beauty's clothes were to increase

The lack of beauty in the sun would show

أهانتِ الغاداتُ أهلَ الهوى

وهنَّ قد هُنَّ على نفسي

The slanderers insulted the people of passion

And they were humiliated in myself

فأعينُ القومِ وأذيالها

مصلحةٌ للرشِ والكنسِ

The people's eyes and their trails

Are good for the feather duster and broom