لَم تَرَ العَينُ لِلثُرَيّا شَبيهاً

بِمَسيلِ التِلاعِ لَمّا اِلتَقَينا

The eye has never seen the like of Thurayya

When the two streams met

أَعمَلَت طَرفَها إِلَيَّ وَقالَت

حُبَّ بِالسائِرينَ زَوراً إِلَينا

She winked at me and said

Love walked falsely with travelers to us

ثُمَّ قالَت لِأُختِها قَد ظَلَمنا

إِن رَجَعناهُ خائِباً وَاِعتَدَينا

Then she said to her sister, "We have wronged him

If we send him back disappointed and exceeded

وَضَرَبنا الحَديثَ ظَهراً لِبَطنٍ

وَأَتينا مِن أَمرِنا ما اِشتَهَينا

And we turned our talk inside out

And we got what we craved

في خَلاءٍ مِنَ الأَنيسِ وَأَمنٍ

فَشَفَينا غَلَيلَهُ وَاِشتَفَينا

In private, without a friend near us

We quenched his thirst and slaked ourselves

فَلَبِثنا بِذاكَ عَشراً تِباعاً

فَقَضَينا دُيونَنا وَاِقتَضَينا

Then we stayed like that for ten days in succession

Fulfilling our debts and taking what we desired

كانَ ذا في مَسيرِنا وَرَجَعنا

عَلِمَ اللَهُ مِنهُ ما قَد نَوَينا

That was on our journey, then we went home

God knows what we intended