بِالصُبحِ تَنَفَّرَت عَنِ الخِلّانِ

فاِختَرتُ عِتابَها عَلى الهجرانِ

At dawn she bolted from the thicket

So I blamed her for leaving

قالَت أَرَأَيتَ ظَبيَةً ما نَفَرَت

مِن هَول تلوّي ذَنَبَ السَرحانِ

“Did you see,” she asked, “a startled gazelle

Not flee a twisting serpent’s path?”