1. One day in the spring of March so sweet
We lost him before he reached his youth

2. He imagined the beauty of Niroz's adornments
And gathered their decorations in awe

3. His morning departed healthy and delighted
And the edges of his days were pleasant

4. Jewels were scattered in the valley and he was true
To the horizons where the hills were strung

5. His sun flowed in the sea as clear
As emerald when it melted

6. As if his breeze was the breath of virgins
Who tasted honey or sipped the hidden sips

7. Ibn Abbad wished for him in the mornings
When he stirred the flowers and drinks

8. I did not intend he would become an evening
And resurrection was not a reckoning for me

9. Disheveled, dusty, his face darkened
And his sword dripping, unsheathed

10. He changed that handsome form to ugliness
And types of bliss with it to torture

11. The sea roared as if Moses came
With his staff or the pharaoh brought his ships

12. Lightning flashed in the clouds as if an army
Of the peninsula marched with their tents

13. As if its rays amidst the snow were fire
And horsemen around struck their shelters

14. Or the beautiful bride on her wedding day
Who tore her veils and face covers

15. So whoever charmed the sky and rained on us
Pearls and gold poured down

16. The eye delights in his pure state
As the parchment was nurtured by ashes

17. With the cotton it obtained, the spindle was blessed
And did not cease twisting and pulling

18. They cut through the snows to every meadow
And every lover's clothes there

19. So whoever fashioned the furs
And the young lads robed in burdens