1. Is it from you to reveal the concealed,
Or from you to bewilder and deny?

2. Blame carped at our parting but neither
My companions strayed nor ceased to please

3. Not to abandon her saying for oft
Murmured 'twixt us, whispers arouse

4. O you whom I shun for one in whose voice
Delight yet he dwells next door

5. If you say: ‘I for you show patience’
Then one thing I grant while you endure

6. If you say: ‘I who preserved you what time
Fortune made havoc and life was unsure'

7. A name enraptured by passion for one
Like rose clasped by leaves in savoir faire

8. Long I smiled at his secret till I made
Known what I was wont to forbear

9. A garden entitled Perfection but in
Persian its name is Discloser of Care

10. Watered in Edens to which belong
Streams from the tubing cane rivers pour

11. Youths peerless, for horseflesh pedigrees
pure, every mother’s son deep-versed in lore

12.
None orphaned from sires of pure strain

13. since coat-tails dragged and dress trims wore
Their peers they meet scholarly and rakish

14. equals, for verse and adventures in store
One night I partied with them till day waned

15. Murk clouded and deeds beyond restore
I rode to Mayyafariqin and they chose

16. steeds swift and camels strong for the chore
My camel submissive, tractable, glides

17. As though pure stock her gait does assure
You'd think she disclosed from her trappings

18. like walls the parade of what under she bore
No, by Him whose pleasure the pilgrims sought

19. Both Sa’d and Omar He guided and more
None vied with Abbas in munificence

20. Seas overflowing tossed liberal store
Nor Delos whose youth lively streams caressed

21. a skin, to touch soft as palm fronds that soar

22. Till it seemed should embrace but the ground
so mean any clasp would its reach outpour

23. O son of Abu l-Abbas, you whom clouds rain
bounty in plenty, a ceaseless downpour

24. You sifted my verse though yourself command
verse and verse in plenty, a fathomless store

25. Folk hope and fear both your states for you seem
Hellfire and Heaven, chastise or adore

26. Greetings to your father whose tracks scored
bounty and favour with mankind outpour

27. One who in leadership challenges poses
Minds to take heed and peer measures restore

28. Like a polished white steed purebred pedigreed
burnished unsullied, from dross cleansed galore

29.
He keeps the behests of a father whose repute

30. 'twixt men was of virtue, from blemish secure
As though his namesake poured bounty profuse

31. spent without count, poured forth evermore
It waters what warbled the songster endowed

32. with lays of the Hebrews, a wave without shore
You hold people's fealty, though they persist

33. and people's guidance, though mazed in their lore
Folk who their glory is nourished by favours

34. That store up 'gainst them esteem evermore

35. They relieved a bosom its ache and the pall
O'er Kaaba was lifted, the veil was no more