1. Raise high the finest drink from cups of joy,
And pass around the cups of companionship, for it is my entertainer.

2. My beauty was cast upon the shoulder of splendor,
So it clothed the horizons in a robe of sapphire.

3. And my loose cloak was elegantly draped,
Like bangles over the wrists of the maidens.

4. The splendor of palaces is humbled before my rank,
For I am she who emerged and whose peer was exalted.

5. In the well-built and lavish structure and its horizons,
I surpass the most brilliant and the dimmest of stars.

6. My supreme position is the most exceptional and sublime,
Which has attained precedence in prose and verse.

7. When its fingers tips grasped the pens,
It emitted strands of magic between the lines.

8. Abdul Aziz, the brother of his Majesty, is a scribe,
The secret of the Caliph Ahmad al-Mansur.

9. As long as the leaves rustled with dew in the meadow,
He remained in prosperity and security.