1. I traveled, and I said to her, "Is that a planet?"
She said, "Yes, and where am I from the planet?"

2. She smiled, and I saw a laughing lion
With pearls, but it does not grant them

3. She swayed, and the archer was determined
She hummed, and I saw the arrows aimed

4. I fixed my gaze on the roses of her cheeks
When I saw her gaze fixed on me

5. She spoke to my heart without sparing it
If the beautiful one knew, her glance would claw

6. White and radiant, as if her forehead
Was the dawn, and its turtledove above it disappeared

7. O how often silk gained smoothness
From her, and gives others what it earns

8. And how often some women envied her
And how often the healthy envied the crippled

9. There is a well-known kinship between paints and them
The beautiful one avoids it

10. Smoothness to her is Arabic
And the beauty of those dolls is Arabized

11. Tell the flirtatious one that she was created so
Beauty is not bought or imported

12. When you reach the peak of beauty haughtily
Know that keeping it is difficult

13. Alas, smoothness does not benefit beauty if
Their character is not gentle

14. I tested singers, but did not find
Among them at all a smooth one who does not lie

15. I accompanied them, but only gained sorrow
What is gained from singers is tiring

16. And I experienced them, but the virgin has no
Sanctity she observes, and the most treacherous I saw was the non-virgin

17. Let not their weakness deceive you, for it is
With weakness that the cunning rabbit destroyed the deer