1. Should the salt encroacher spread friendship
And fold harshness, bitterness, estrangement and disaffection?

2. Should I resent that I adorned the palm of Hashim's son
With the bracelet of Hijaj that tortures the heart, not the wrist?

3. I have never insulted Safwan of Iraq
With the likes of him little praise or much blame

4. When Abu al-Ward takes the wine cup in his hand
I imagine his nape a meadow growing roses

5. The clouds weep their bounty on the grape arbors
Expanding them with downpours, from their sap they glisten