1. You clothed me with a fur coat, so winter fled from me
And turned away, as the hordes of Tatars turned away.

2. The Pleiades yearn that you may gleam with it -
Black as the night, though the moon gave it to me as a gift.

3. Were it not for it, I would be chilled, but my
Furrier made for me a bond as of musk or ambergris.

4. When I wore it among a group, they were amazed,
And one of them said, "Who is this prince?"

5. With a collar of sable, whose beauties almost
Seemed to the leaves in their clusters to be chameleons.

6. If 'Amr boasted of the collar which they alleged,
Say "Yet 'Umar grew up in the minister's collar."