1. O you with the short stature, no blame to her
Nor the others of her peers

2. She came out in greenery like a garden with
Naught but necklaces adorning her blossoms

3. With a single pearl surrounded by pearls
Pleasing my passion with its tearful pearls

4. A gazelle who refused to allow sorrow to rend me
While my eyes hasten with the water of yearning

5. Youth poured upon her, still immature
Water of beauty in whose purity there was no turbidity

6. Were it not for the eyes and apples of cheeks
The blind would not envy one with sight

7. You bid farewell from a ruin and left me no ruins
Save those in which grief flows with remembrance

8. They said, do you cry over a vestige, so I said to them
He whose eyes it escaped, his longing guides him to the trace

9. Indeed the generous are many in the lands even if
They are few, like others, few though many

10. The number of their arrogant will not make you despair
For most, nay all of them, are but cattle

11. And whenever perils appeared amongst them
He who faced peril, his demise became evident

12. Had mishaps of time not befallen most of
That in horses, excellent steeds and warriors were not praised

13. How excellent the young man Umar is, in every
Misfortune that befell, saying: how excellent the young man Umar

14. He gives and is praised, whoever comes to him, he praises him
So his gratitude is recompense, and his wealth largesse

15. Brandishing the sword of his sound opinion
Time's sheath polishes it, and reflection sharpens it

16. Wrathful when he unleashed it in the face of misfortune
That came to him, the days' daughters come to apologize

17. One asking about Abu Hafs, so I said to him
Restrain yourself from him, for he is fate

18. He is the spirit, he is the firm mountain, he is the
Comforting rain, he is the inspired enthusiast, he is the memorable echo

19. A young man you see, his pride dispels hardship
Auspiciously, and ease springs from its essence

20. His ransom when you ask him, fearing to ask
As if there were hair and fleas on his skin

21. How can you see him devoid of honored sustenance
While each day in others' possessions you see plenty

22. God's blessing on the clan of Abdulaziz, for how many
Times they repelled the mighty foe's cheek

23. His sublime behests are recited among their shoulders
Some folks even thought they were Quranic verses

24. Oh, I wonder who is he whose glories are these
What is it that he awaits in attaining the starry heights

25. In poetry there is prolixity when its odes
Rival one group and fall short of another

26. Journey with your eyes to the furthest of our glories
If you have no traveling to establish them

27. Did glory flower except in Odad's clan
Or was any fruit thereof plucked but by Tai'?

28. Were it not for traditions that perpetuated our glories
Of dew and rebuttal, the night conversation would not please