“Doos[[454]] yá lellee. Doos yá lellee (three times).
’Eshkë[[455]] mahboobee fetennee.”
Tread![[456]] O my joy![[457]] Tread! O my joy! (three times).
Ardent desire of my beloved hath involved me in trouble.
(The preceding lines are repeated after each of the following stanzas, sometimes as a chorus.)
“Má[[458]] kullu men námet ’oyoonuh
Yahsib el-’áshik yenám.[[459]]
Wa-lláh ana mughram sabábeh.
Lem ’ala-l-’áshik melám.”
Let not every one whose eyes sleep