1. لَعَمرُكَ ما تَجافى الطَيفُ طَرفي

    لِفَقدِ الغُمضِ إِذ شَطَّ المَزارُ

    By your life, the dream-vision did not shun my eye

    for lack of sleep, when the meeting place lay far away;

  2. وَلَكِن زارَني مِن غَيرِ وَعدٍ

    عَلى عَجَلٍ فَلَم يَرَ ما يُزارُ

    but it visited me without an appointment,

    in haste, and did not see the one it came to visit.