1. O painter who depicts, portray
Egypt with a delicate, graceful scene

2. Indeed Egypt is the tale of time so read
The moral of time in the ancient book

3. It was toyed with by destiny in
The youth of time, a sign of the truthful one

4. And the wink of the devoted one found fire
And the refuge of the virgin in time of distress

5. And our death knells so Chosroes, he of the throne
The two Caesars, and the Farooq

6. States that did not appear but were concealed
Behind a thin veil of time

7. My garden adorned itself and displayed its beauty
When they said your steeds are on the road

8. Like a virgin of the old women of Rome
They gave her tidings of the Patriarch's visit

9. The laughter of water and apples upon it
The branches reciprocated with applause

10. Adorn it and spring a season so it swooned
Toward your two steeds light with yearning

11. So descend in its narcissus eyes' protection
Chastely and above the cheek of the sweet.