خرجنا إلى صيد الظِّباءِ فصادَني

خرجنا إلى صيد الظِّباءِ فصادَني

هناك غزالٌ أدعجُ العينِ أَحورُ

هناك غزالٌ أدعجُ العينِ أَحورُ

We went out to hunt gazelles, but I was hunted

We went out to hunt the gazelles, and there

there by a gazelle with large, deep-black eyes and strikingly clear whites.

A gazelle with beautiful eyes enchanted me

غزالٌ كأنّ البدرَ حلّ جبينَه

غزالٌ كأنّ البدرَ حلّ جبينَه

وفي خدّه الشِّعرى المنيرةُ تَزهرُ

وفي خدّه الشِّعرى المنيرةُ تَزهرُ

A gazelle, as though the full moon had settled upon his brow,

A gazelle whose forehead seemed lit by the full moon

and on his cheek radiant Sirius shines.

And on whose radiant cheek the Pleiades blossomed

فصاد فُؤادي إذ رماني بسَهمه

فصاد فُؤادي إذ رماني بسَهمه

وسهمُ غزالِ الإنسِ طرفٌ ومِحجَرُ

وسهمُ غزالِ الإنسِ طرفٌ ومِحجَرُ

So he captured my heart when he shot me with his arrow;

So my heart was struck when he shot me with his arrow

and a human gazelle's arrow is a glance and an eye socket.

The arrow of a human gazelle has glance and rocks

فيا من رأى ظبياً يصيدُ ومن رأى

فيا من رأى ظبياً يصيدُ ومن رأى

أخا قَنَصٍ يُصطَادُ قَهراً ويُقسَرُ

أخا قَنَصٍ يُصطَادُ قَهراً ويُقسَرُ

Oh, who has seen a gazelle hunting, and who has seen

Oh you who saw a hunter hunting gazelles

a hunter hunted by force and subdued?

And who saw a fellow hunter hunted, defeated and overpowered