سادتي كم أتشكى

سادتي كم أتشكى

لحليّ يتغمَّمْ

لحليّ يتغمَّمْ

My masters, how much I lament

My masters, how I complain

for a Ḥillī who grows gloomy!

To the adorned beauty who frowns

صرت من وهميَ تيساً

صرت من وهميَ تيساً

للمراعي يتشمَّمْ

للمراعي يتشمَّمْ

In my imagining, you have become a billy goat,

I became, due to my delusions, a goat

sniffing about for pastures.

Who smells the pastures

ما له في الشام مرعى

ما له في الشام مرعى

فدعوه يتقمَّمْ

فدعوه يتقمَّمْ

He has no pasture in al-Shām,

It has no pasture in Damascus

so let him scavenge for scraps.

So let it browse and feed