1. كم قائلٍ إذ رآني

    مفكراً في ملمّه

    Many a speaker, when he saw me

    pondering his plight, asked:

  2. تسير في أيّ وادٍ

    فقلت والغيث يمّه

    “In which valley do you travel?”

    So I said, with the rain his sea:

  3. من المزيريب أسري

    أريد وادي فحمه

    “From al-Muzayrib I travel by night;

    I seek Wadi Fahmah.”