أمعارف الدمن القفار توهم

وَلَقَد مَضى حَول لهنَّ مُجرَّم

The deserted ruins deluded my acquaintances,

And indeed a year has passed for them in criminality.

وَلَقَد وَقَفَت عَلى الدِيار لِعلَّها

بِجَوابِ رَجع تَحِيَّة تَتَكَلَّم

And indeed she stood at the abodes hoping

That with an answering return a greeting would speak.

عَن عِلم ما فَعل الخَليطُ فَما درت

إِنّي توجه بِالخَليطِ الموسم

About knowing what the amalgam did, but I did not know,

That he went towards the amalgam at the season.

وَلَقَد عَهِدت بِها سَعاد وَإِنَّها

بِاللَهِ جاهِدَة اليَمين تقسم

And indeed I had known her as happy, and she

By God, swears a solemn oath with her right hand.

إِنّي لاوجه من تكلَّم عِندَها

باليّة وَمخالف من يَزعُم

That I do not face one who speaks in her presence

As irrelevant and one who claims to oppose.

فَلها لَدَينا بِالَّذي بَذَلت لَنا

وُد يَطولُ لَهُ العَناء وَيَعظُمُ

For she has with us, for what she spent for us

A love whose hardship lengthens and magnifies