1. رعَى اللّهُ عَصْراً غاب عنِّي عَواذِلِي

    به فَسرقْتُ الوَصْلَ في غَفْلةِ الدهرِ

    May God bless a time when my reproachers were absent from me;

    in it, I stole union while Time was heedless.

  2. أصائِلُ وَصْلٍ بَرَّدتْ بنَسِيمِها

    من الكَبِدِ المَلْهوفِ هاجِرَةَ الهَجْرِ

    Afternoons of union cooled, with their breeze,

    the noonday heat of separation in the anguished liver.