Sol 6.1

  1. أفدِي التي طرقَتْنِي في ولائِدِها

    بين العوائدِ كيما تأخذَ الخبرا

    I would ransom her who visited me by night among her maidservants,

    Among the women visiting the sick, to learn how I fared.

  2. فصادفتْ نِضْوَ أسفارٍ طليحَ هوى

    بالحبِّ مرتدياً بالسُقْمِ مُؤْتزرا

    Then she found one worn thin by journeys, exhausted by love,

    Clad in love, girded with sickness,

  3. معذَّباً بذماءٍ لو يُرَدُّ إِلى

    جُثمان مَيْتٍ ألُوفٍ منه ما نُشِرَا

    Tormented, with life's last remnant: if returned to

    A dead man's body, even thousands of such remnants could not revive him.

  4. وأقبلت نحوَ إحداهُنَّ قائِلةً

    والدمعُ ينثرُ من أجفانِها دُرَرا

    And she turned toward one of them, saying,

    While tears scattered pearls from her eyelids:

  5. لقد أسأنا فإنْ حُمَّ القَضاءُ فيا

    لهفي عليه وإنْ يسلمْ فقد ظَفِرَا

    “We have indeed done wrong; if doom is decreed, then oh,

    My grief for him! Yet if he survives, he has triumphed.”

  6. ثم انثنتْ فأمرَّتْ بَرْدَ أنْمُلِها

    على حرارةِ كبْد تصدعُ الحَجَرا

    Then she turned back and passed her fingertips' coolness

    Over my liver's heat, enough to split stone.

  7. وساقطتْ كلماتٍ عند فُرقَتِها

    منها عِذابٌ ومنها تقذفُ الشَّررَا

    And she let fall words as she departed,

    Some sweet, and some that flung sparks.

  8. وفارقتنِي على مِيعَادِ ثانيةٍ

    من الزيارةِ تَنْفِي الهَمَّ والفِكرَا

    And she left me with the promise of a second

    Visit that would banish care and brooding.

  9. فإنْ سلمتُ فمَنْ مثلي وإن تكنِ ال

    أُخرى فقد نِلْتُ من إِلمامِها وطَرا

    If I survive, then who is like me? And if it be the

    Other fate, I have gained what I wished from her brief visit.