1. The cock crowed, so get up or get dressed
And let your heart overflow with the water of grapes

2. And contemplate a miraculous verse
Unlike any we've read in books

3. The pitcher bowed in obedience
And the dress of the jug wept and got wet

4. Were it not for entertainment dispelling my worries
And I was enraptured until I tired of rapture

5. And a lad who stood up among us as a cupbearer
Like a fawn nursed among the chirping of insects

6. A young gazelle described apart from the girls
She came swinging in the form of a boy

7. The rose opened on her cheek
And her temple was guarded by a moody scorpion

8. She walked towards me and I had fallen for her
With the gait of a bird towards a fox

9. A cloud greeted us with its eyes
Imbibing the horizon with a pouring tear

10. Like a sea that came upon us from above
Its sphere made of unspoiled pearls

11. It came close as if it would
Wipe the ground with its overflowing rain

12. We asked it astounded by its beauty
Filling the eye with a wondrous sight

13. "What are you?" it said "A cloud
Whose palms were taught generosity by al-Nujayrah

14. I was commanded by the East to quench your thirst
An act of mercy from Him to the farthest West"

15. We asked "Is this meant for us?"
It said "Can the glow of a planet be hidden?"

16. "A king who opposed you
The builder of glory and rank"

17. So we knew it was a whiff of one
Who inherited generosity father after father

18. You have a palm-full of dew whose abundance
Has the spreading of moisture from every dune

19. Like a bucket whose water is pure
Lighting with water the necklace of worries

20. The eyes can see in it the full moons
Of the saddled horses and the rising sun

21. He was born to the glorious elite
Who descended to the highest ranks

22. With pristine, noble souls
In bodies of solid pedigree

23. And faces shining or laughing
Amid the faces of worries

24. Theirs are days of war that multiplied
Against their enemies the callers to war

25. `Amir could not withstand such feet
Nor `Amr ibn Ma`di Yakrib

26. They dragged the tail of glory while they
Fought fiercely in the shadow of unsheathed swords

27. O son of the mother of glory, take it as a lesson
And earnestly consider words as desirable as play

28. You are adorned by the girls of affection
As the chest of the stallion is adorned by the forehead jewel

29. It is wine whose fragrance was captured
Heading toward you across the valley