1. If I gain your nearness one day,
I won't care if you're far or near.

2. I fell in love with you and realized
Its meaning, so it became my way.

3. When my eyes enjoyed your beauty's garden,
You made me sleep deprived for enjoying it.

4. Neighbors, if you leave the plain untouched
And empty the place of sadness,

5. You have harvested my tears like gems
And stilled the bend in my ribs,

6. Sending an imaginary form to her eyelids,
So that sleep joins her as a guest.

7. On the day of farewell, how much woe for me
In you - a crescent that rose, a bending branch, a gazelle that glanced.

8. If I smell beneath the eyelids a slumber,
I see magic in it - two bow lengths or less.

9. By Him, if He wished, He would shorten the distance between us,
So the hovering specter wouldn't tire between us.

10. He created in you my wings for love
As He created the victorious king for glory.

11. A king whose ambition in knowledge and generosity
Sees money in destitution and life in toil.

12. He built ranks which praise mentioned
So strange for a builder - how does he build!

13. And he attained sincerity until he owned praise purely
So he was generous with what he owned and greatest with what he attained.

14. And he cleared the land's borders of the enemy's insolence
Why not, when he dragged spears from their sheaths.

15. You'd think he counted valor in the heat of battle
As thorns, and spearheads as lilies.

16. A brother whose actions divert fear
To words that breathe magic between us.

17. If I let flow memories of minerals, I see
His land as a mine for knowledge and generosity.

18. My friend, his place is protected
By supporters, in the land growing passion.

19. No coats of mail can stop an intent arrow,
No iron armor can don battle gear.

20. I sang his virtues, so the nocturnal journey delighted me,
No wonder that song delights a man.

21. No flaw in it, except that I visited him
And days made me forget family and home.

22. I learned all kinds of speech through him
So I became highest in poetry and best in it.

23. If it's said "Who is most generous in the world?"
Reply "He is" or say "I am".