سائِلا الرَبعَ بِالبُلَيِّ وَقولا

هِجتَ شَوقاً لَنا الغَداةَ طَويلا

Asking the places of rest about our loved ones at daybreak,

You awoke longing for us this morning.

أَينَ حَيٌّ حَلّوكَ إِذ أَنتَ مَحفو

فٌ بِهِم آهِلاً أَراكَ جَميلا

Where are those sweet people who adorned you when with them,

I saw you beautiful, populated.

قالَ ساروا بِأَجمَعٍ فَاِستَقَلّوا

وَبِرُغمي لَوِ اِستَطَعتَ سَبيلا

"They left all together and went their ways,

And without me, if only I could a path take."

سَإِمونا وَما سَإِمنا بِبَينٍ

وَأَرادوا دِماثَةً وَسُهولا

"We grew tired, though not of separation,

And they wanted change and new plains."

ذاكَ مَغنىً مِن آلِ هِندٍ وَهِندٌ

قَمَرَتهُ فُؤادَهُ المَتبولا

That, a singer of Indian descent, and India

Has moonlike beauty that ravishes his heart.

إِذ تَبَدَّت لَنا فَأَبدَت أَثيثاً

حَلِكاً لَونُهُ وَجيداً أَسيلا

When she appeared to us, revealing household goods,

Smooth of skin and slender of arm.

وَشَتيتاً كَالأُقحُوانِ عِذاباً

لَم يُغادِر بِهِ الزَمانُ فُلولا

And dispersed like ostriches in distress

Whose remnants time does not relinquish.