1. Rising from the horizon in the dark night
On a pitch-black evening

2. Like the rising of the full moon in blackest dark
Looking from an enclosed tent, black

3. As a patch on a black hair
I met him in a brave company of lads

4. Playing in an open space
He burst out like a roe deer, red

5. With slackened dangling tail
Revealing a red cheek

6. He charged into a style of shooting
His silence being amidst the shouts

7. With a bending, leaning figure
And playing with a blond ball

8. Wondrous, struck high in the air
With truthful arrows

9. Guarded for piercing the veil
His fresh green was not worn out

10. No, and his sharpness was not blunted
He does not droop brittle without bending

11. But he is juicy like the tongue of water
Best waterer of a singing water skin

12. Stealing a swig in the valley
Like the stealing of the closing eye

13. Or like the erecting of the ear for listening
So he passed in a style loyal to it

14. Dividing the gaze of the lively black eye
In play between earth and sky

15. His legs tapping the bare ground
With the randomness of blindness

16. He steals from the forms of gazelles
Pecking which he loyally follows

17. The slowest he grabs attracts the onlooker’s eye
And he counts the numbers in counting

18. Like your driving the camels with prodding
He meets the shock from the front

19. And sometimes he prefers meanwhile
To receive the shooting from behind

20. So his build is of excellent strength
Shaking like the red-brown snake

21. His knotting is from the intensity of twisting
Like a branch beneath the raging wind

22. You see him as the limbs extend
As if he were the star Sirius

23. He has a line of few errors
Wise in acceleration and deceleration

24. Had he not been touched by tiredness
He would have joined morning with evening

25. Strange in his error like the ostrich
Exceeding in repetition

26. Oh you smooth galloper
Raising a red forelock

27. Of a tail on a dusty forehead
She obeys her master without resistance

28. And he is uncompromising in his aloofness
Changing lowliness for rejection

29. He widens her with kicks without restraint
And whenever she straightens up in exaltedness

30. She kisses the foot without refusal
And repays aloofness with loyalty

31. Take her even if not from Sana'a
A gift of mine like the musk bag

32. Describing an exotic amusement
Her utterance to the eloquent Arabs