1. The king of kings gifted me in the west and east
A pearl beyond compare, though my thanks fell short

2. To show a slave the best of blessings poured
From his generous hand, ever kind at least

3. He brought glad tidings of sweet honeyed joys
Plunging me ‘twixt yearning and desire

4. The allure of her glances, that amorous fire
Wounding hearts with arrows it employs

5. Why doesn’t the light of her face outshine
The radiant full moon in its wispy clouds

6. Why doesn’t her garden of beauty now
Blossom, watered by your hand divine?

7. The tidings came, what rapture is concealed?
What wings have not thrilled and reeled?

8. I almost perished from longing before
Your word relieved - we will meet before long

9. Evening finds me, my heart filled with love
My eyes fixed on the road you will come from

10. While your slave awaits with an unfettered heart
Tied fast by the tenderness departure imparts

11. Marvel how beneath my breast at rest
Or over it, both fettered and freed, it lies

12. See it as a steed in the heat of the quest
Now leaping, now plunging in enterprise

13. My king revealed in the beauty he chose
A vision to ravish my heart and impose

14. No higher thing exists in this life
Than she the illustrious king selects to wife

15. You were blessed to give such thanks sincere
For the gift sent by a lord whom we revere

16. Ever generous is our lord to his slaves
Granting their wishes with gifts heaven paves