1. يَقُولونَ لَو ماتَت لَقَد غاضَ حُبُّهُ

    وَذَلِكَ حين الفاجِعاتِ وَحِيني

    They say, “If she died, his love would surely ebb.”

    Yet that would be the hour of calamities—and my final hour.

  2. لَعَمرُكَ إِنّي إِن تُحَمَّ وَفاتُها

    بِصُحبَةِ مَن يَبقَى لغَير ضَنينِ

    By your life, if her death is decreed, I

    shall surely not cling to the company of those who remain.