1. My tears have kept their promise,
As if what's in my eyelids is on its cheeks.

2. It yearned and called for the sweetness of its embrace
As long as the gazelles obeyed its beckoning.

3. It intended, but denied itself to me
And I regretted until the gazelle of its denial.

4. A brunette who mocks with her figure, and sometimes
Glances, so her whiteness mixes with her darkness.

5. I stood before her, with my love and my youth,
And my tears flowing as they always have.

6. No injustice remains in the time of the minister
Except her injustice to her beloved.

7. And now I come to his doors
Pretending, and counting myself among his many slaves,

8. No wonder, if the praises of a composer blow
While the green one walks among its melodies,

9. One with lofty ambition, who saw generosity in people
Lacking, so was pleased to make it flourish.

10. And gifts like heavy rains
On a dewy day, for both neighbor and stranger.

11. And dwellings between your palm and wealth
O you who complain of poverty, other than its roses.

12. The scholars are humble before it
Out of reverence for the most praised of effective men.

13. And heralding those who visit, as if he
Were visiting it and seeking its bounty.

14. He meets enemies and those of purpose and prohibition
With its death, its life, and its benefit.

15. O joy of the exalted, hawk of its summer,
And refuge of its people, and anger of its envious,

16. The souls of others nearly die of envy
Their bodies shrivel like parchment.

17. So boast of yourself, for it is the only soul
Perfect, seeking only eternity.

18. It scorns the passing years, the fading of its form,
Renewing blessings and wearing a new cloak,

19. Its readiness has inclined it to you in love,
As if it fell in gratitude prostrate before you.

20. And I came to you complaining of the heat of thirst,
So I drank from the sweetness of its cool salvation.

21. And your gifts have adorned my neck, those which
Have ruled the days, never discarded.

22. So let me hear you chanting loudly
A praise that diminishes all past newborns.

23. No heated speech befits the unique
Except regarding the uniquely generous.