1. Tell the generous Bedouin prince
Who sufficed for the nomad and the sedentary

2. That your days may bring you respite
And freshness from my blossoming sapling

3. I thank you for your favors I'm grateful for
While the ungrateful is like the infidel

4. Gifts that were only for those
Whose fortune is in a generous position

5. You still thank me in a garment
Worn by one with splendid spoils

6. Those who listen say
How much did the first leave for the last?

7. I had a friend who was a companion to me
And an intimate in time gone by

8. He milks fate of its mornings
And mixes the sweet with the bitter

9. Until, when my meadow sang to him
Its bucks in a flourishing enclosure

10. He conceived his wishes
After embracing the barren resolve

11. It bears from him a marvel
That renews the mockery of the mocker

12. One of wealth sought by the beseecher
And a confounder who takes from the poet

13. But his inclination met my money
With a loss from a stumbling hope

14. Share with the oppressed through it, and do not
Be partner to the gambling man

15. So visiting you is glory, and not
Like your visiting of the visitor