1. Is there in the abodes at dawn a steadfast one,
Or in the quarters of intimacy a frequent visitor?

2. Or whom do you call out to from the high-ceilinged houses
That are ruined like a dilapidated basin?

3. You ask him to fulfill the pact that was your pact
When you brought together those that did not cast.

4. You are the sorrowful one seeking the traces
Of the living; if you intend their resting places you will arise.

5. There was in it one whom I loved and one
Who found happiness in life that did not last.

6. My companion asks me of my sickness though he
Slept supperless while I did not sleep.

7. My cure and origin of my sickness
Are one thing, and it is the greatest of diseases.

8. From the days she bequeathed her lover
And evil meets the horizons of agony.

9. I use a name other than hers though God knows
The secrets of all who conceal.

10. Fearing the slanderer repeating too much
Casting aspersions into it and integrity of words.

11. Goodly is her complexion and candidness
And height when at rest or gently breeze.

12. Her mouth smiles as if from a sweet-
Smelling perfume and a beautiful smile.

13. She rubs herself with fresh scent or jasmine
Or bright flowers of the darkest gloom.

14. She is tawny as the blessed night - the red
Dusk that ushers in the darknesses.

15. There was thrown in it ripened raisins and zabib
Berries from a hill dripping from pods.

16. With strained water from ageless water
That was filtered on a night of Scorpio.

17. On it was cooked quince pulp - the leftovers
Of transparent Isaac of little regret.

18. Into it was thrown sweet almonds from double-
Skinned musk and strips of hot peppers.

19. It was returned to the porcelain pot - engraved,
Settled in the clay furious and fermenting.

20. Ripened walnuts that the peach stone remover stripped Without cracking or crushing.
It bubbles and its bracelets like the

21. Echo returned from resounding Misab.
With an obstruction that squares the sword - long handed

22. Like darkness made to fit tightly together.
Planted by green palm fronds

23. A carver slicing the necks with his feet.
And a raid whose bridges burned that

24. I hurried in it with quick steadfast steps.
With wide open mouth - the ankles

25. Joined, scraping the bowls brought together.
In its elbows proximity and palm

26. Print like toadskin grown together.
It was threaded on the seam and perfected

27. Without returning to carefulness of chewing.
It is long necked - extended with its lays

28. But did not test on determining ripeness.
As if after the horses were cut off

29. And the battle joined the warring parties.
A wanton seeking pigeons while the

30. Southern wind makes it rise to the hill.
It casts down the heavily armed knight

31. Until he disappears into the darkness.
I hurried it on the morrow and it

32. Rivaled the extremities of peace.
Inform my friend whose frowning distresses me,

33. I cannot restrain his anger.
If it should be lost what I carried then

34. I carried a sin like a towering burden.
God's trust and it is greater than

35. The plateau of misfortune and the cornerstone of the tent.
I tell you the secret - I do not tell

36. The people - and single you out apart from relatives.
I deter the slandering enemy if

37. He suspects you - deterring from me insistently.
My father Urwa deterred the beasts if

38. He feared they would blend with the sheep.
You betrayed the covenant of brotherhood - initiating

39. And did not fear the consequences of vengeance.