إن كان عندهم وقد ظنوا

أنا نقيم فبئس ما ظنوا

If they believed, though falsely deemed,

That I would settle, how wrongly they dreamed!

واسترهنوا قلبي فوا عجبي

الذين لي وفؤادي الرهن

When my heart they took as their pawn,

My wonder at those to whom it was drawn!