1. وَمَا زَالَ يَبْرِي أَعْظُمَ الجِسْمِ حُبَّهَا

    وَيَنْقُصُهَا حَتَّى لَطُفْنَ عَنِ النَّقْصِ

    My love for her has kept whittling away my body's bones,

    and thinning them until they grew too slight to shrink further.

  2. فَقَدْ ذُبْتُ حَتَّى صِرْتُ إِنْ أَنَا زُرْتُهَا

    أَمِنْتُ عَلَيْهَا أَنْ يَرَى أَهْلَهَا شَخْصِي

    For I have melted away so much that, if I visit her,

    I fear no danger to her from her family seeing my form.