1. The impudent braggart, O Hafadh! His star,
O doomed to perdition and confusion!

2. You lean against a deaf rock taking it to be
A trysting-place where you may kiss and cuddle.

3. The evil genius of these two assemblages
Is he - sab and sharq - the poisoned and jaundiced one.

4. Fermenters of envious hatred unharming others,
As though it were a disease lurking in their bodies.

5. Their reddened eyes gleam not with joy at the mouth
Of this youth made happy by a transient fortune.

6. The Pleiades rose heliacally veiled in their throats
After they had wrestled with him as he resisted.

7. The Caliph's arrow in the stirred up fray
When the squadrons recoil and twist about.

8. With that arrow of two blades urged on
By the plumes of two eagles aimed at the twisted one.

9. A shadow of God which yesterday spread over
The mouth now contracts upon it.

10. For Khalid a compensation in every direction
From it, while no compensation for Khalid from it.

11. No bond of it came untied, no cause for it,
But the affairs of the hopeful ones come untied.