1. The meadows bloomed from the radiant Banat Jar'a
With tears from me and clouds from the sky

2. So my tears fulfill the right of passion there
While the clouds fulfill the right of the singing sands

3. Hearts are empty of hearts just as
Those encampments are empty of beasts and gazelles

4. And I say to my companion, and he is
A friend's treasure for the worst circumstances

5. O my companion, I will not lessen if I
Call out for you to listen to my call

6. Curve the carpenter of rain in quenching the fever
Until he sees the pouring of water

7. And we forget in quenching homes a precedent
By which we rule over the noble

8. O home to which my devotion turned
Until its flowers smiled at my crying

9. I did not know before visiting your abode
That tears are the truest of winds

10. I wish I knew while time is fickle
And fate exchanges severity with ease

11. Will we meet in a flowering garden
With fluttering branches and twigs

12. And find in it from our harmony even if
There is no warmth from the watching eyes

13. Where the branches conversed adorned
With the pearls of dew

14. And the jasmine buds appeared and kissed
The shame of the delicate beauty

15. The flowers on the shore of the gulf are as if
An eye disease has afflicted a blue eyelid

16. And the blossoms' bending in the meadows' green
Is like the stars blossoming in the green

17. As if the breeze came giving good news
To the garden, telling it of lasting

18. So it clothed it in a fragrant robe and cast unto it
Coins of flowers generously strewn

19. As if it scorned the making, so the rustling
Of leaves apologized for it

20. And the branch dances in the beauty of its leaves
Like a cheek in green down

21. The lips of narcissus blossoms smiled at what they saw
Perturbed, and the running water chuckled from it

22. I ransom it from a intimacy that became old and shattered
As if it had been in a swoon

23. Nothing remains of it but a memory or wish
And both are causes of prolonged distress

24. Or a note from a friend - a gift indeed
Notes are the gifts of the vigilant

25. I did not know before breaking its seal
That notes are the cups of comrades

26. Until I folded my coats in rapture with it
And dragged my train in haughtiness

27. I made that envelope like a cup of wine
And made its sender of pearls

28. And I wondered at a boon companion who gives his companion
A cup over the sea and wilderness

29. And I saw the elegance of its writing in its beauty
Like the bracelet adorning the wrist of a beauty

30. By its truth - nine signs, it indeed
Came supporting me against my enemies

31. So it was as if I were Moses with it, and it
Was the interpretation of Surat Al-Isra

32. If the mind of the son of Hussein composed its like
His prophethood would be proven to the poets

33. Dark when you first saw it, but beneath it
Is for you many a white hand

34. And I have seen when frustrations twisted me
Where the darkness of injustice gloomed

35. That the sky sent me its messenger
With a gift that illuminated my quarters

36. With the two mothballs and camphor
In the envelope of white camphor

37. That envelope's camphor is enough for me
And the stars of your poetry from the sky

38. I swear by it, its prose and poetry, it
Fulfilled for me my hopes in full

39. And I knew that you in composing it
In word and script are the miracle of the noble

40. Not what Babylon claimed of its sorcery
Nor what Sheba claimed of its making

41. And I flung it the ball, though it
Is an issue that exhausted the eloquent

42. And I sought an answer from my mind but it let me down
And the palm of my intellect stumbled my brilliance

43. So I neglected its meter and rhyme
And neglected in it the precedent of the literary

44. And sent it as unmetrical doggerel
To confound an inclusive and despairing mind

45. I learned of your value in knowledge so it set forth
Out of shyness walking in modesty