1. I say to myself, when her siege was prolonged
And her ally deserted her for events

2. Death is good for me, for in good there is rest
So there comes upon her, her appointed time, that harms her

3. Had she hoped for life, I would have excused her
But she challenges death with her young camel

4. I was faithful to the betrayed, giving him his measure
And it grieves us, while the horses bend their necks

5. When horses meet horses, I meet them
With their peers, a lion whose roar humbles

6. The Indian seeks only their heads
The unskilled meets only their chests

7. So the command of the Lord's servant and his companion dispersed
He turned the millstone of death upon it and around it

8. The betrayed thus saw in us an opportunity
There, those are my enemies, long has been their joy

9. And greater than this upon me a disaster
When the soul recalls it, its sigh is long

10. The separation of men who were not humiliated
And the killing of men whose conscience was fervent over it

11. They met me with what was in their souls
Only their immorality kills the immoral

12. We spent a time, and the buyers were delighted
Pleasing thereby their supervisor and their emir