تَعلّقنَ بالأشفارِ من كُلّ فَعَبرةٌ

تَعلّقنَ بالأشفارِ من كُلّ فَعَبرةٌ

تَسير بأخرى ماؤها ما تنشّفا

تَسير بأخرى ماؤها ما تنشّفا

They clung to the lashes of each [eye]; then a tear

My tears hang on my eyelashes, one after another

flows with another whose water has not dried.

Their streams flow ceaselessly, their waters never dry

وقد جدّ دمعي فوقَ خدّي فَعَبرةٌ

وقد جدّ دمعي فوقَ خدّي فَعَبرةٌ

تَسير بأخرى ماؤها ما تنشّفا

تَسير بأخرى ماؤها ما تنشّفا

And my tears flowed in earnest over my cheek; then a tear

Indeed my tears have streamed down my cheeks, one after another

flows with another whose water has not dried.

Their streams flow ceaselessly, their waters never dry

إذا اجتمعا نوعين قلتُ شقيقةٌ

إذا اجتمعا نوعين قلتُ شقيقةٌ

أُضيف إليها نرجسٌ فتألفا

أُضيف إليها نرجسٌ فتألفا

When the two kinds came together, I said: ‘An anemone

When two kinds come together, I say: they are sisters

to which a narcissus was added, and so the two mingled.’

Add to them a narcissus - how well they harmonise