1. His abandonment terrifies a terrified heart,
The grayness of old age fills it with sorrows.

2. The fates showed it the decay of a garden
And before forty it saw the spring.

3. The vigor of a youth that bloomed
With stars that adorned this fading.

4. Oh, how strange are the deeds of the passions!
They have corrupted the sincere with betrayal.

5. They disbelieved in that worshipped idol
And had been to it prostrate or kneeling.

6. They see in his distance the nearness of wishes
And the narrowness of his embrace, a wide life.

7. Nights that would shame the basil with a breeze
When a singing damsel lies next to him.

8. O people of the path, have you forsaken a path
That I surpassed all racers upon altogether?

9. So I am not a neighbor except to a stallion
Nor a partner except to a firm mountain.

10. I sleep on your loins and with me are
Loins that rob the drowsy of sleep.

11. I shake over a people swords
And make them against a people armor.

12. If she travels disgraced over you
Then repel that vile news.

13. My poetry is more deserving, o you of little wit,
To spread in the sea of poetry.

14. You left the tambourine being stricken to gain
And became bored of me, repelling me in agony.

15. When the vile shaykh was deluded by harm
He sought the rope of the vile.

16. He will be distracted from the art of dancing worry
If I dance from him a terrified dance.

17. And the shame of his fangs will be exposed by the cheeks of my fangs
If the secret of a young man is deposited in trust.

18. You have indeed removed by your repentance the pleasures,
The clothes of arrogance, and dressed in humility.

19. You left by it the instruments lost
And it was difficult for the instruments to be lost.

20. So they were picked for your sermons and found
Your pulpits after it a grave matter.

21. How did you abandon after the words of a people
When the effeminate man abandons, he dies of hunger?

22. You were, when the alleys saw you singing
The tunes of passion, crying in unison.

23. Do you not long for the meadows of worries
The songs of the taverns and the pleasant places?

24. For the mountain cats have excavated upon them
The carpets and the cushions.

25. You abandoned abandoning except composing poetry
You dazzled magic with its wondrous magic.

26. You shunned dishonor except the shame of intimacy
That humiliates you when he comes intoxicated.

27. He visits you while the darkness is a cover over him
So he patches from you a despised gain.

28. O knight, will you be my intercessor tomorrow
If today I make you my adversary?

29. You invited to misguidance the invitation of the misguided
So the Hearer was not hearing to him.

30. Shall I turn away from the love of my father dust
Who has burdened the chests and ribs?

31. Shall I turn away after the inscription of old age
When I loved him as a suckling infant?

32. Make less, before the overwhelming of rhymes
In your gatherings and crowds my mention.

33. I advised you so do not reject the fate
Nor call upon yourselves evil rain.

34. If you never follow my guidance
Then I am not ever for you buying.

35. Oh how the devoted to God reproach
Brings near to you the vile time.

36. He will dye from your blood the highlands
And gore from your decay the tree trunks.

37. I will judge you by the seven oft repeated
And that sun has covered you rising.

38. For their scriptures have preserved truth
And I am not for what they have preserved wasting.