1. I gazed upon their spears and ours
And saw the gap between them and us

2. I gazed at them drunk with wines
From cups brimming with sadness

3. She gazed with longing, and he with longing gazed
Their blood turned thin, and thin turned our blood

4. They left, and their leave awoke
What lay dormant in your burning breast

5. I fancied their fading forms a mirage
And their ships like mounts across a waste

6. She gazed with longing, and he with longing gazed
Her glances were made to seduce our glances

7. With each farewell the tears of every beauty
Betrayed the heart's secret aloud

8. The morning left you with the dawn
And sheltered by a sandy hill her bough.

9. She pelted you with a fickle glance
Forsaking you to wander in the night

10. You find her stirring in the dark
Disturbing you when you would rest

11. Much they disquieted my love through her tricks
I grieved in secret, complaint betrayed my woe

12. Oh how she wounded my soul and heart
I dedicated myself entirely to her

13. Quit thoughts of her aloofness
Change dwelling place for dwelling place

14. Let your passion alight on one
Whose time has come and gone

15. Stain your right hand with henna
It brings joy and banishes sorrow

16. You will see stars shimmering in the sunset
Their beauty made radiant just for you

17. The full moon rose from her teasing hand
As fair as a pearl, rid of all blame

18. No coquette can wear it and not find
Its heady scent makes them its slave

19. My skill has won me many spoils
My cunning has outmatched the wise

20. Tell me who can overtake me
In praising the most beautiful of beauties

21. A king of kings, of lofty ideals
Whose right hand is full of bounty

22. Whose leader marches by his side
And pardons with his mighty power

23. The sun seemed far in his splendor
But drew nearer in his brilliance

24. He who smashed the pagan hordes
With his zeal abased their brazen gods

25. He ends all poverty through his wealth
And shames the timid through his courage

26. His sanctuary offers safety
To those who fear the mortal world

27. Destroying riches he rebuilds
The noble with greater bounty

28. Guarding honor, raising its worth
He scorns the plentiful like dung

29. His realm seems on his day of glory
Like the day all pilgrims stand at Mina

30. Through him our hopes will be fulfilled
And all our wishes gratified

31. When drunk with blood his sharp swords
Sing songs to split their skulls,

32. The glitter of their blades is like
Water flowing without end

33. No garden was made verdant by their steps
No stream sweetened in time

34. The torrents of his cavalry charge
Sweeping doubts away like clouds

35. When their dust storms swell and loom
You'd think them nests for eagles

36. The son of Ali holds glory in his grip
His is the deed, while words are ours

37. A moon giving freely of his rain-washed palm
His fingers pour blessings as though weeping

38. With his thoughts he gently corrects opinion
Piercing them with his subtle wisdom

39. They never truly mastered the dark lions
Save as meat for prey and carrion

40. It seems the war brings out their beauty
Displaying it as something wondrous

41. You'd think their interlinking armor was
A torrent streaming between the hills

42. Their thickening darkness veils their sight
Until their eyelids seem like ears

43. Matched by their lineage are names
We hold in high and loving esteem

44. A tree lush upon the hillsides
Whose shade and fruit we gather and eat

45. When he flashes his blade in anger
He makes the slimmest waist grow fat

46. His spear point was enough, no need to strike with his sword, it was said
Does one pierce when one has already stabbed?

47. O you who revived forgotten glory
Through your ode to his generosity

48. You perfected the art of poetry
And struck true with your words

49. You took after your father in resemblance and character
Matching his outstanding qualities.

50. If weighed, a mere pebble of your goodness
Would make even the heaviest scale rise up.

51. You built towering ships swift as birds
And founded cities above the waves

52. With towers arrayed for battle that seem
Like spears soaring to the horizon,

53. Raining fire on the enemy ships
And kindling flames in their hulls

54. Hurling missiles as white as naphtha
You'd think them water yet consuming all,

55. Success and conquest are guaranteed
Against those who would threaten you.

56. I'm the one who gifted you this panegyric,
Pearls valued at the highest price.

57. Though long my rose I make it new with praise
There did I speak it and speak it here again

58. I praised your father in his youth
And here I am, aged in his sunset glow

59. I made Sicily my ward, shunning it as home
And took Tunisia instead as my country.

60. You made your enemies cower, begging
What safety your frown or favor might allow.

61. The clouds of your help refused no rain
While the sky of your gift refused no bounty,

62. You remain as constant as a warrior nun
Embarking with courage on every venture.