1. My companion, burdened and leaning, I directed my camel towards him,
He stood swaying, heavily leaning to one side.

2. I said to him: "Rest yourself, for gentleness brings blessings,
While the hasty attain not their desire."

3. He answered me with the reply of a cultured youth:
"My friend, I am not ignorant of what you say."

4. And he went to her, whom the daughters of time and the long eras
Had busied themselves with.

5. He clasped her waist, and there appeared a tongue,
As if its saliva were dripping honey.

6. With a bejeweled hand, above which was a branch,
And below her waist was a heavy flank.

7. I say, as the morning star appeared to the dawn:
"My friend, your deed towards me is beautiful."

8. "Set me at ease, for the Pleiades have risen high
And the wings of my night have flown far from you."

9. He said: "Now you command me this,
When my joints have been seized by paralysis."