1. Congratulations are for equals,
And for those brought near from afar.

2. As for me, no member of yours
Congratulates the others for delight.

3. Independent are you of lands, though
The stars compose the bricks of this building.

4. And if what pours in it of white silver
Were but bubbles from the sea foam.

5.
You are too lofty to be congratulated

6. For a place on earth or in the heavens.
And yours are the people and the lands, all

7. That roams between the dusky and the green.
And your orchards are the steeds, and what

8. A browny-bay camel bears of gifts.
The noble one, father of fragrance, boasts

9. Only of what he builds from the sublime,
And of his days that have slipped away from him,

10. While his abode is nothing but desolation,
And of what his white blades have implanted

11. In the skulls of foes for him.
And of a musk, named for him, not the musk,

12. But the sweetest of all praise.
Not of what the cities in the countryside plant,

13. Nor what delights the hearts of women.
It descended, when you descended upon it,

14. In better than it in glory and splendor.
In the place fruits grow from it grew

15. The place of honor and bounty.
The sun is outshone whenever the sun

16. Dawns with a shining black orb.
In your robe, wherein is glory,

17. Is a brilliance that mocks all brilliance.
A skin is but a garment, and the whiteness

18. Of a soul is better than gowns' whiteness.
Bounty in valor, wit in splendor,

19. Potency in loyalty.
Who has the hues of kings to change their color

20. To that of the professor's and praiser's?
So the lords of war see you through eyes

21. They'll see you with on the morrow of meeting.
O hope of eyes in every land,

22. You were none but that I hoped to see you.
And the points of honor already wasted my horses

23. Before we met, and my provisions and water.
So strike me as you wish. I am

24. Lion-hearted, human in behavior.
And my heart is of kings, though my