1. O you who guards tears in horizons
And who grants the gathering of separation

2. Do not ask anyone but me about love
For I have met what you have not met

3. I drank the cup before you in passion
And wasted my sigh and yearning

4. And I was seasoned in adversities
And in them I fulfilled the morals of manners

5. A lover does not know when departure is chosen willingly
When the meeting happens to be

6. And I wish I knew what nights that remain
Make one who sees clearly, think

7. Doubt made the insightful, thoughtful one
Surpass between terms and sustenances

8. Every attainment I denied for you, O land
Except a night in Iraq's land

9. Wherein embraced my soul and body
As if we were from intimacy in separation

10. I attained it unveiling the mask while others
Did not attain it in discretion and stealing

11. And if you possessed high manners
My veins, so you secured my eternities

12. Your love did not cease to be in me, O you who seeks the peak
Until I was counted among the lovers

13. Except I forbade the initiative of tears
And in tears is the comfort of the longing

14. The servant of Aziz surpassed the word
So how can I compete in describing him

15. His gentle words rose in hearts
Like the rising of stars in horizons

16. His pens challenged the mouths of the tribe
So they dispensed with the slim lances

17. And he saw his conforming opinion more lasting
Than the embers of swords and shields and body armors

18. The night of travel and leadership of horses
Sufficed him to charge to the smooth fur coats

19. In the heights, what cannot be attained
By the summits and thin pages

20. He remains clarifying with his thinking the rust of doubt
And gives keys to locks

21. A protector of the defect of eyes for long
Overlooking and intense lowering of the gaze

22. You do not see him to enmity except
Like the dog of malice, holding the strangle

23. Its saliva is of black drivel transgressing
Every agreeable one avoids its wellbeing

24. The chapter of great deeds did not overlook him
With a look into the insignificant, petty ones

25. So he is, in both his states, like the mighty ship
Between darkness and sunrise

26. The eyelid roams when it roams in it
The roaming of a glimpse, yet difficult to pasture

27. Not like a lustful roamer whose passion wanders
Between his guts and audition

28. Incapable, whose determination was lost between
Your worries, and the victory of the captives and the freed

29. And a swaggerer who bet his slave girl so he took
To the rods of gambling before the race

30. He was in his action like one who swallows the hot coal
Who did not wait for the proof of taste

31. When the bridle bit avoided and plunged
Its teeth into its cheek strap and the saddle girth

32. So you rescued it when hooves tore
With the galloping of the swift fillies

33. They went out like arrows, goaded
By the goading of the smooth rock for the spacious meadows

34. And if their bodies had raced their bodies
In length they would run on the veins

35. After kindness from its uneasy, suspicious abdomen
And tying from its fervent neck

36. And you were so generous as to share
In the conquest, and the victory of the captives and the freed

37. Battles knew your plot so they do not
Raise the trains of the smooth garment

38. With twisting ropes it tricks them for a while
And for a while with pulling and sinking

39. Your fear did not leave a share for swords
In the flowing blood and spilled blood

40. You sufficed away from their armour
And you prepared for them the passes of necks

41. And you avoided with prestige confusion
That was between the swords and necks