معذرٌ قال لنا حسنه

معذرٌ قال لنا حسنه

ما ذا الذي يأتي به واصفي

ما ذا الذي يأتي به واصفي

A downy-cheeked youth—his beauty said to us:

My apologies, Hasna said to us

“What can my describer bring forth?

What is it that describers bring

والصبح ما فارق فرقى وما ان

والصبح ما فارق فرقى وما ان

فك الدجا أو سال في سالفي

فك الدجا أو سال في سالفي

And dawn has not left my hair’s parting, nor has

And the dawn has not parted from the Pleiades, nor loosened

darkness unraveled or flowed along the side of my face.”

the darkness, or flowed down my waterfalls