“Ráh el-mirsál wa-lem gáshee:

Wa-’eyn el-hobb bi-teráshee.

Ya-bu-l-gálif. Ya-bu-l-gelfee.

Yá reyt’në ma-nshebeknáshee.

Ya-bu-l-gelfee, etc.”

The messenger went, and has not returned:

And the eye of love is glancing.

O thou with the side-lock![[468]] O thou in the long-sleeved yelek!

Would that we had not been ensnared!

O thou in the long-sleeved yelek, etc.