شَدَّ ما اِستَنزَلَتكَ عَن رَبعِكَ الأَظ

شَدَّ ما اِستَنزَلَتكَ عَن رَبعِكَ الأَظ

عانُ حَتّى اِستَهَلَّ دَمعُ الغَزالِ

عانُ حَتّى اِستَهَلَّ دَمعُ الغَزالِ

How forcefully you were drawn from your dwelling by the departing

How intensely the places you frequented called you back

caravans, until the gazelle's tears poured forth!

from your campsite as the antelope wept!

أَيُّ حُسنٍ في الذاهِبينَ تَوَلّى

أَيُّ حُسنٍ في الذاهِبينَ تَوَلّى

وَجَمالٍ عَلى ظُهورِ الجِمالِ

وَجَمالٍ عَلى ظُهورِ الجِمالِ

What beauty among those departing has gone away,

What beauty turned its back on the departing ones?

and loveliness upon the camels' backs,

What gorgeous one retreated from the mounts of gorgeousness?

وَدَلالٍ مُخَيِّمٍ في ذُرى الخِي

وَدَلالٍ مُخَيِّمٍ في ذُرى الخِي

مِ وَحِجلُ مُغَّيَبٍ في الحِجالِ

مِ وَحِجلُ مُغَّيَبٍ في الحِجالِ

and coy grace encamped in the heights of the

The guide whose traces were lost in the valleys of Kha,

tents, and an anklet hidden behind curtains,

and a long-necked one hidden in the sand dunes,

وَمَهاً مِن مَهى الخُدورِ وَآجا

وَمَهاً مِن مَهى الخُدورِ وَآجا

لِ ظِباءٍ يُسرِعنَ في الآجالِ

لِ ظِباءٍ يُسرِعنَ في الآجالِ

and oryxes from the oryxes of curtained chambers, and herds

and a wild cow from the cattle of the camps,

of gazelles that hasten life's appointed ends!

and mountain does racing toward the termini,

عادَكَ الزَورُ لَيلَةَ الرَملِ مِن

عادَكَ الزَورُ لَيلَةَ الرَملِ مِن

رَملَةٍ بَينَ الحِمى وَبَينَ المِطالِ

رَملَةٍ بَينَ الحِمى وَبَينَ المِطالِ

The visitor came to you on the night in the sands, from

called you on the night of the soft sand between

a sandy tract between al-Hima and al-Mital.

Himā and Mithāl. So the phantom did not visit you,

نَم فَما زارَكَ الخَيالُ وَلَ

نَم فَما زارَكَ الخَيالُ وَلَ

كِنَّكَ بِالفِكرِ زُرتَ طَيفَ الخَيالِ

كِنَّكَ بِالفِكرِ زُرتَ طَيفَ الخَيالِ

Sleep, for the phantom did not visit you; rather,

but in your thoughts you visited the phantom's image.

you, in thought, visited the phantom's apparition.