1. I feared the glowing embers on your cheek would burn
The brilliant pearl that is your smiling lips

2. So I extinguished its heat with my ribs
And protected its melting with my tears

3. I was content when your beauty was unharmed
Ransomed by my tears and ribs

4. I do not forget our love in the morn
We'd visit before the first light spreads

5. The boughs of your palms amidst tumbling curls
And the eyes of your gazelle 'neath the veils

6. Until farewell's hour came between us
A secret to the spies, not common knowledge

7. It was naught but duty's bidding
Our acquiescence and gesturing fingers

8. And the morn after the day of sorrow
The patient one glanced round, expressing the grief of torn hearts

9. In the horizon dawned the blossoms of the beloved
Flowers appeared though stars still shone

10. Until the vigilant adversary attacked
Obscuring with fingers the suns of their faces

11. Their cloud wept a shining tear
How delicious when departure draws near

12. Provisioning your eye where halt was denied
The eye's archers are wondrous indeed

13. Witness their actions with a shielded heart
When Selma saw the darkness of my requests

14. Which the light of my stratagems cannot dispel
And when kings whose abode I frequented

15. Were unjust, I showed no humility
And when a member corrupts, it becomes useless

16. Naught cures it but the cut of the hand
She said "Listen!" though I was no guard

17. For the terrified, O wise one, listen to the humble
"Make your enemy withdraw, who but you

18. Can appease foes?"
"Leave overreaching glory, for I have not seen

19. Glory like that of the contented."
"None but Saturn and the sun's path through the fourth

20. Are rightly placed in the seventh sphere."
I replied: "If I speak any bold words now

21. My position prevents, O dearest friend
My steed refuses events that ridicule -

22. Patching won't deter its tearing."
"However many homes signal to me no place

23. Has touched the saddle of my mare's striding."
"How many nights has their darkness severed me

24. From the dreamer tossing in his bed?"
"On nights that star and sword keep me company

25. Among warriors using arms as pillows."
"Cities always gesture me welcome

26. Like a star between rising and setting."
"I am like a poem people repeat

27. And they listeners enraptured by verse:"
"Whose praise of the minister never ceased

28. As gifts in the land's breadth he conveyed"
"But our praise of you is the poet's crown

29. And ear-ring of the praising listener."
"Your gifts encompass the world's expanse

30. And people within it are like doves flocking."
"Bestowed without cease are your charitable deeds

31. After those furthering God's religion."
"Ministry behaved as a spinster

32. Seeking your equal in gathered virtues,"
"Many a nose of over-confident suitors

33. Was cut, blood flowing, no trickster's guile,"
"Suitor's noses cut until a proud horse rose

34. That wouldn't yield to any challenger,"
"They appealed but she refused while you refused

35. Until she came to you, faces advocating,"
"Fate is miserly but when it gives

36. It offers wondrous innovations,"
"They left the heights for Abu Ali - heights

37. Are rightly his, none disputing,"
"The ministers were sealed with a majestic seal

38. Known by all for renowned mention,"
"After them came your great wealth

39. As the troops' vanguard deployed,"
"If you came late and they went early

40. Yours the lead of slow and swift,"
"Dawn comes truthful or lying

41. Ever preceding day's shining light,"
"The bounty flood whose like before

42. Were leaders directing its surge,"
"Let the horizons of high office rejoice

43. For their crescent rose with a rising moon,"
"His beauty eternal, kindness divine

44. Safe from diminishing, pleasing the perceiving and hearing,"
"Ties of lineage and ties of love joined

45. Like sequenced pearls united,"
"A horizon whose sun and aquila ascent is might

46. Neither isolated nor fallen,"
"Say to the virtuous: you came at need

47. So rely on my ample streaming kindness,"
"Shaded by a white-full moon's glories

48. Without excuse denying his gift,"
"The flood of his palm and tongue need no means

49. Or advocates to deliver,"
"Firm if steeds bolt as if the rain clouds

50. Were starlings grasping at each other,"
"When he assumed rule his wisdom

51. Time stretched its palm to greet,"
"Fate the rebel obeyed him though never before

52. Was fate obedient,"
"His signature on books from his pen

53. Suffices, no deeds or witnesses needed,"
"In a strait so dark night has woven

54. Horses flaring their nostrils,"
"Zephyrs of musk flung amidst them

55. Pelting the neck of every foe,"
"He shakes the polished scabbard advancing

56. Like lightning's flash in clouds shining,"
"Mainstay of Hashim's state - my assets are naught

57. But hope of you, and feats my wares,"
"Without you, O sea of virtues, never

58. Would dew's era be returning,"
"O Glorious One whose favor encompasses all

59. And increases in merit among the virtuous,"
"Lasting, your hands dispensing generosity

60. Aiding the stubborn and bringing benefit,"
"Enjoy a time whose nature you know

61. The free are safe though goods are lost,"
"O Glorious One whose favor encompasses all

62. And increases in merit among the virtuous,"
"Dispensing with lasting hands generosity

63. Aiding the stubborn and bringing benefit,"
"Enjoy a time whose nature you know-

64. The free are safe when goods are lost."