1. Imagination knocked and from it came an apparition
That traveled at night seducing a doe in slumber

2. O fleeting respite from distress, alas it
Turned away into the darkness and vanished

3. The orphan rose at dawn, now sadder
More tearful and gloomy with sorrow

4. But determination lifted you to glory and nobility
Ambitions that seemed as high as mountains

5. You followed them with resolves as if
You followed the drawn swords with more swords

6. You loaded them with sturdy mounts as if they were
The mounts of ostriches when they pursue a caravan

7. A gift-mare whose running exhausted the messengers
And they imagined her beneath the saddlebags another saddlebag

8. She felt safe in the domain of Ahmad son of Muhammad
That his mighty one would not be disgraced or humbled

9. Indeed, she leads the steeds, emerging with the spear
Pouring them upon the foe with death

10. Whenever an expanse opens up she imagines it
Closing while the others race away