يَا شَاةَ مَا قَنَصٍ لِمَنْ حَلَّتْ لَهُ حَرُمَتْ عَلَيَّ وَلَيْتَهَا لَمْ تَحْرُمِ
What a gazelle-like beloved for the one to whom she is permitted! She is forbidden to me; how I wish that were not so.
The hunting expression is a figurative designation for the beloved, not an invitation to hunt. The paired verbs ḥallat and ḥurimat sharpen the contrast between desirability and inaccessibility. The commentary offers tribal enmity as a possible background for the prohibition; the poem itself should not be turned into an unqualified legal ruling.