1. Afatim before you two have delighted me,
And your refusal of what I asked you to show me,

2. So do not make false promises
That summer winds pass by below me.

3. If my left hand were to oppose me
I would cut it off and say between me and it -

4. That's how I deal with whoever opposes me.
To the one with a grudge who looked from behind the veil -

5. She did not leave the valley for a time.
They passed by rugged cliffs and smooth dunes

6. And bent the branches to the right.
And they were likewise when they crossed a valley,

7. As if their necks were on a boat.
They resembled the boat while they are good fortune -

8. High-chested, large-eyed fillies.
And they on the coaches, settled

9. Slayers of every valiant weakling.
Like gazelles who strayed with no guide

10. Drinking dew from the branches.
They appeared with anklets and let down braids

11. And pierced veils for their eyes.
And of gold that shines on a necklace

12. The color of ivory, without any greenness.
And they in the darkness, wrapped up

13. Long-tailed, long-horned.
They showed beauty while others concealed it

14. Of excellent lineage and guarded honor.
If one is tempted by a glance one day

15. It's hard for him - he won't come back for a time.
With a toy I entertain myself, shooting my arrows

16. That pierce brilliant stars from the bow.
They ascended the skies and descended unseen

17. And did not come back saying anything for a time.
So I said to one of them as I loaded my belongings

18. For a migrant, binding my forehead for her:
Perhaps if you cut the rope from me

19. I would then be your companion for lifetimes.
So cast off your worries with one filthy

20. With matted hair like the hammer of a blacksmith.
With her truthful shank that seemed to compete with

21. And take on the valley washing.
As if its hide made a perfect garment,

22. The black digger from the mud.
When it twitches, I hold its tether tighter

23. In front of visitors than the valley's twitching.
As if the places her breath comes out

24. Are perfumed with early wild roses.
The breath of asthma from her strengthens

25. The forbidden biting with tusks.
She pounds both flanks with a splitter

26. Whose sound is louder than the groan.
As if her breath's expulsion were both hands

27. Throwing a strange ball with helping hands.
She closes with everlasting peril a chaste

28. Vulva's yearning for the thick rods.
And you can hear when a fly sings

29. Like the cooing of doves on the roof corners.
And I let her tether go and she slept

30. As was her habit, openly.
As if her resting place was a bowl

31. Poured on her goats and on the valley.
As if the balls and anklets on her

32. Were on skilled, thick-necked horses.
Her mass splits the water, rising over

33. The dunes of every hump-backed valley.
Her shoulder blades have become cracked, forgetting her -

34. Impudent in the marrow and muscles.
When I get up to make her depart by night,

35. She moans the moan of a grieving man.
She says, when I turn my valley from her:

36. "Is this his religion, ever, and mine?
Is all of time easy departure and travel,

37. Never leaving me as I am, or securing me?
So I spend my useless time while earnestness from her

38. Is like the shops of counterfeit sellers."
I bent her tether and placed my belongings

39. And a drinking flask I clasped in my right hand.
So I was happy with her challenging an intoxicated man

40. On his camel-litter and on the mounts.
To and from Amr - she brought me

41. The most judicious and wisest brother.
"Either be my true brother

42. And take my impurity and purity from me,
Or cast me off and make me

43. An enemy, each avoiding the other.
And I don't know, when I set out

44. Which I want - good or ill for me.
Is the good that I seek

45. Or the evil that seeks me?
Leave off - tell me what I have known

46. And I will avoid it, but inform me of what is hidden."