“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