1. The prince is a dove of the hungry granary,
And fulfiller of the wishes of the bound prisoner,

2. When a neighbor dwells unjustly in the land of a people,
His neighbor descends at the top of scabbards.

3. How often have I remained silent, my silence hitting
Him and fine gifts from goodwill sustaining me,

4. He gives me so I earn praise through his gifts
And my successive offspring remain enduring and multiplying.

5. So whoever of all people has seen me,
Has seen one who does good without doing good.

6. He has associated palm trees whose planter other than him
Was their cultivator and resident of a palace not built by him.

7. Are you slandering my honor, O you who are slipping away
With the water of my face safe from Sulayman?

8. A young man, young and brother
Of misfortunes, gathering clouds and times!

9. A mature mind, when its lightnings flash
A day, polishing intellects and minds.

10. One affectionate to me, and close kin are to me
As good examples, and my brothers, comrades.

11. Do not create my manners in them, and my
Fire has blazed, and the two new moons have renewed my state.

12. In my first, blameworthy time, I knew them,
And now I deny them in my second time.

13. So the roots they planted met barren soil, and their
Suspicions of me flowed in the worst field.

14. A gang whose manners neighbored my manners
And so they are my neighbors though dispersed in the land.

15. Our spirits are in one place, and our
Bodies became in Syria or Khurasan.

16. And many a compatriot in exile, his soul forever
Clinging to my soul, close though not intimate.

17. Is there for me an unmatched, peerless brother
In the essence of affection, my secret and my proclamation?

18. It turns back from your abundant sea, returning
Without its needs, my water-bucket and pulley.

19. One empowered where I have no power, and my hand
Is useless in benefit and empowerment is my empowerment.

20. Like fire, cold in its wood, which has,
If it leaves it, a blaze not lasting.

21. I do not forget, I do not forget, the saying a man spoke
At which I lowered my eyelids and lids after it.

22. Attain glory or poetry, and you will not be a young man
Unless you enrich fifty people through one person.