1. So let him who asks after me know that I
Am of the youths in the days of pleasures

2. A hundred years have passed since the year I was born
And ten more after that, and two pilgrimages

3. So the turns of fate convinced me
As it spared of the Yemeni sword

4. It became worn, a common blade
When its two hands are joined to its handle

5. Do not the sons of Ka'b claim that I
No! The old man denied it. I am ephemeral

6. We brought the horses from Tathleeth until
We came upon the sands of Faladan

7. We came upon the cleaned, well-kept
Light of step from the pulling of time

8. Green with shade opposes them
At its edges the splitting of the quilts

9. And for the women of Numaan a day shaded us
At Sufwan when they showed me

10. So we made his wife ride behind and came
With what he had gathered of belongings

11. So I remained as if I regretted, a cupbearer to Chosroes
While he had two leopards and I had two

12. And we shared with Quraysh their food
And the bridling of their lineages

13. With what the women of Bani Hilal bore
And what the women of Bani Aban bore

14. Shall I not send a messenger to Bani Khalaf
With more right that I satirized you

15. And if not for the prevailing of my mother's clan
And Ka'b's, who has standing with me

16. We would have engaged in the core of discourse until
We become as two horses bet upon

17. There reached me what the clan of Ju'ayl says
In a valley of Aniyya or Eeyan

18. Their help came to me while they are far
Their lands are the lands of the pigs

19. Abu Layla verily raced with Qaham
And Munatikith, nearing and distancing

20. When he meets the informers, it is as if
He charges upon the regiments and the patrols

21. So let him who covets my advanced age know that I
Am of the youths in the days of pleasures