وافى كتابك فاسترحت للفظه

ووجدت فيه شفاء قلبي المكمد

Your letter arrived, and I found comfort in its wording;

And found within it healing for my sorrow-stricken heart.

وطفقت أنظر في خلال سطوره

نظر المريض إلى وجوه العود

I began to look among its lines

As a sick man looks upon the faces of those visiting him.