1. He refuses when ambergris comes to mind
Except to shed tears copiously from his eyes

2. He allotted tears to dwellings, knowing
That the best part of him was in those tears

3. It is the sand dune which the hands of fate
Had toyed with, his member and his crescent

4. They went with it while a lustful glance
Darted among his cheeks and his sidelocks

5. And longing scattered its tears on his cheek
So it flowed or ran down his chin

6. O abode generosity left its beauty in
And so it went, on the backs of its camels

7. What is it with your camp, its meeting
Is not afforded to a lover except at its departure

8. So I was quenched, the camels went back
Having watered life, and I was quenched by his return

9. And by a gentle song, it blamed me
Like the family of Chosroes, so I rejoiced as if I was one of them

10. I will meet him either ruining his morning in it
Or protecting his fight

11. And I see he escorted to us his cudgel
Held in his right hand and his left

12. Or an archer when his drawing was complete
His purposes were not linked to his arrows

13. Do I see him protect his arrow from throwing
Or did mercy prevent him from shooting it?

14. An era whose features were mixed with his cudgel
And his shadows intermingled with his left side

15. Until I thought the roses were from his trees
A fragrance or the basil from its stems

16. As if when I wore his shadows
I became the vizier's neighbor wearing his shadows

17. The one who tied property on the day of his giving
And played the strings on the day of his fighting

18. A king whom kings fear, so he holds
His reins, or else dies by his sword

19. His wealth in peacetime is from its spoils
And their souls in war are from its spoils

20. Time polished so it returned in his days
Like the cold in its affliction and its polishing

21. If you long for doves then court them
Or if you choose life then be loyal to it

22. He gives you what he gives his noble steeds
And young lions with sharp blades

23. He carried the spear so it shook in his shaker
Agitated by him and swayed in its swaying

24. So I see diminishment in the enemy's life
And increase in the friend's state

25. With deeds of might against his enemies
And deeds of generosity with his wealth

26. They blamed him for gallantry, but who folds
The paths of his fight or blocks his way?

27. His paternal and maternal uncles have become equal
In a heap that is no longer the peak of his maternal uncles

28. An honor that lengthened the fish hook rope
Until it shaded and spread with its shade

29. So when the flowers of stars appeared around him
Their turbans were from the ends of his garment

30. Al-Mughira left and he was his noble one
And Qubaysa came and he was his hero

31. Al-Mughira left and he was his noble one
And Qubaysa came and he was his hero

32. The chests of your spears glared at his chest
While people shared in sponsoring him

33. As for forgiveness, its light smiled
After wilting, and the light of its lamps returned

34. You released him from his shackles, healed him
From his illnesses, and opened his locks

35. The minister has called to the wine of dew
Whoever was dependent on his palm trees

36. I praise him with a praise that shook a garden
Whose torrents shook its trailing garments

37. And I say to the one seeking his glory
You are the noble one, not merely resembling him

38. His virtues are complete, so if someone
Increases after perfection, it increases his perfection

39. And his manners have deserved my words
So I mixed the refined of it with the refined of him

40. I gift him what softened from his necklaces
And make permitted what softened from his chains

41. And some people say, you have excelled, but
The excellence of praise is from his excellence

42. No praise to me if the pearl of my eulogy
Became a necklace after I had threaded its beads