كيف يطولُ الدجى عليَّ وقد

كيف يطولُ الدجى عليَّ وقد

أمسيتُ أضطرُّه إلى القِصَرِ

أمسيتُ أضطرُّه إلى القِصَرِ

How can the dark of night drag on for me, when

How can the darkness last long for me, when

How can the night linger for me when

I have come to compel it to be brief?

I have reached evening, forcing it to be brief?

I make it hurry to the shortness

أدسُّ تحتَ الظلام منزلةً

أدسُّ تحتَ الظلام منزلةً

في أختِها من مَنازِلِ القَمَرِ

في أختِها من مَنازِلِ القَمَرِ

Beneath the darkness, I secretly slip one lodging

Beneath the darkness, I slip a mansion

I build under the darkness a house

inside its sister, among the mansions of the moon.

Into its sister among the mansions of the moon.

Like its sister from the houses of the moon