1. With a beauty like an idol poured upon the earth
I tore from her a cloak at midnight

2. I visited lovers and foes other than her
Like embers that ignite the eyes with rage

3. And I trod without the quarter fire of enmity
If iron had trodden it, it would have melted

4. With a passion that revived my separation, and if
It was cast upon the crevice of youth, it would have ignited

5. In the expanse of the robber of the horizon running with her
A vein that settled in the carpenter and was aromatic

6. With emeralds, if they climbed Mount Safa
Their insides would have fallen upon it as hail

7. And we almost drank from the loftiness of her neck
Water that the winds drive with clouds

8. It startled the raven of the night in me as if
I rode an eagle to hunt it from her

9. And my companion is anger as if his fleas
Were insects accompanying him and flies

10. As if a sun in the brilliance of its water
Beating him with its rays and reflection

11. And the dawn has pushed away the haze of the stars
As if it were a torrent driving bubbles