1. She looked and liked what she saw on her chest
Of his beauty, and I looked at my robe

2. She saw it had shoulders bending at her waist
And unkempt hair, its locks entangled and twisted

3. A guest who bites at every forearm he takes
Like a thicket or a palace seen from afar

4. And I saw the wide saddle narrowed
Its straps loose, its leather worn out

5. I brought the shaved shanks near as if
I brought scorpions and snakes near

6. Regret and misery, be sure
Had I been patient with you for the trysts empty

7. Why is your head behind me askance
You fancied a girl behind me, hot for her

8. So go away, you are as good as dead, never
To live again, even if you lived for years

9. You are delusion, when news reached me, and sometimes
Delusion can be healing for one who hoped in it

10. But the help of an arid land is not to be hoped for
Until I come back a brother to a youth walking

11. O mount that has evicted me
And disgraced me and expelled the mother of my children