“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.