ما على الغادرين نسكب دمعا
إن فجعنا بصدهم والفراق
No tears do we shed for the faithless,
even if their rejection and our parting leave us grief-stricken.
غرهم صبرنا عليهم فظنوا
أن هجرانهم مرير المذاق
Our patience with them deceived them, so they thought
that forsaking them was bitter to us.
لا تعودوا ولا تمنوا علينا
بالذي تمنون يوم التلاقي
Do not return, nor hold over us as a favor
whatever you bestow on the day we meet.
سوف نصحو وكل نشوة حب
سوف تودى بها الليالي البواقي
We shall come to our senses, and every rapture of love—
the nights that remain will bear it away.
Sol 5.6