1. My excuse, from the excuses of affairs
That settled my feelings instead of sadness

2. And smiles of aroused beauties of an age
Not from swords but from the frontiers

3. I rode determined, my feet towards it
And every slender-waisted restless ostrich

4. Sometimes in the houses of nomads is my baggage
And sometimes on the camel's saddle

5. I expose my soft neck to the spears
And set free my face to the winds

6. And travel in the darkness of night alone
As if I, because of it, am in an illuminated moon

7. Say about a need I did not fulfill
Quenching my passion for it or little sleep

8. And a soul that does not respond to a villain
And an eye that does not glance at a counterpart

9. And a palm that does not dispute he who came to me
Disputing me other than my honor and goodness

10. And few supporters, You sufficed me
With evil from You, O evil of eras

11. My enemy is everything in you, even
If I envied the protected, swollen chests

12. If I were envied over my soul
You would find with it the successful finder

13. But I am envied over my life
And what is the good of life without joy

14. So O son of Karawwas, O half blind
And if you are proud, O half sighted

15. You oppose us because we are not docile
And hate us because we are not one-eyed

16. If you were a man who was satirized as we satirize
But a coward fell short of proceeding