1. إن ضاعَ قَصدي لكم فكَم سَفرٍ

    ضاعَ بِتنِّيسَ من مسافِرِه

    If my coming to you has been in vain, how many a journey

    has gone to waste for its traveler in Tinnīs!

  2. ولم يضع قد رأيتُ منك بها

    عجائبَ البحرِ في جزائِرِه

    Yet it has not been in vain: there I have seen in you

    the wonders of the sea in its islands.