1. Do you have, O son of Hamad, as you like
To extend or retract as you wish?

2. As if when his guide hurries him
He longs for some over others

3. So whenever you give his reins
More slack he races you faster

4. Now and then his training swerves
You toy with spur and lash

5. As if he were lightning you startled
Or an arrow recoiling from the bowstring

6. Of the family of Hilab his pedigree stems
Reaching the utmost of their pure breed

7. Immersed in its water, fully soaked
To give or reward you with a loan

8. The celestial spheres are startled by him
Like a shooting star darting through space

9. Galloping like a stud of horses
Or pearls strung on a necklace

10. And when she lengthens her path with him
It's as if she boasts in her resting place

11. When his head rises to noble game
I ransom my love from the hunt

12. Bringing him near is the discipline of nurses
To a cub numb from rising

13. He has no fault but his docility
And that he walks upon the earth

14. Maybe horseshoes on his hooves
Will protect some from slipping away

15. Yours is the essence of their elite
And what clings to that essence

16. No destroyer can alarm you or critic
Rend what you tied with a bond

17. Perhaps an unjust ruler in his rule
Will pass judgment on him for what he judges

18. God protects his neighbor from him in
Shady, shaded refuge and harvest

19. He reached glory by striving in his life
And humility brings you closer to humility

20. Sleeplessness does not wean an eyelid
And wakefulness weans the eye from slumber

21. His times have not changed from his father's
Exchanging blackness for whiteness

22. So misery in his body is like bliss
And love in his eyes like hatred

23. A youth whose charm surpasses description
Can extract water's foam by churning

24. He cannot be measured if compared
The whole is known by the part

25. How can the revolving celestial sphere be measured
Whose edge twists but does not twist

26. And when it lingers aimlessly
It knows no length from width

27. O camel of my travels, make my way a valley
Whose pasture hastens across its width

28. The wish of glory is to pasture it
Better than swamp plants and sour fruit