1. She showed sorrow when she saw me free of youth,
And turned from wonder to wonder.

2. Twenty six she calls me, yet I follow her,
To gray hair, wronging and loving not.

3. My day from fate is like fate, intent
On resolve, determination, striving like epochs.

4. Consider me small that grayness shines on my youth,
And great that in the cradle I was not gray.

5. Let not the blinking of dimness trouble you,
For that is the smile of reason and propriety.

6. She saw his harshness so her passions were aroused,
And she said to her unrest, spill your tears.

7. Do not deny his sternness though it is concealed,
For the sword is not despised if it has sheaths.

8. Only care from a man dispels care,
Who shakes the sturdy she-camels' humps.

9. When distresses turn, you see him resist them
With his cheeks' towers against the assaults.

10. Dawn will spend the night for a man
Often mentioning consent in times of anger.

11. I turned from him but his affection turned not
From me, and my hopes resumed unfailing.

12. Like rain, if you meet it its drizzle comforts you,
And if you leave it, it seeks you.

13. Of praiseworthy traits he fulfilled permanence so he
Became the apple of glory and nobility's eye.

14. It is as if it were of his traits forever
Though he dwelled alone in a formidable desert.

15. A splendid nature was fashioned for him of gold
But it destroyed people for gold.

16. When he saw propriety in one lacking nobility
Lost or nobility in one lacking propriety,

17. He reached for the highest company, and they gathered
In his deed like the joining of light and herbage.

18. I have tested your affection while my days are blemished,
Affection was found sweeter than drink.

19. With no past reason, it sufficed as reason
For the noble that a noble acknowledge with no reason.