1. Leave the attire that defies
The wind and rain

2. And be a man who wastes his knowledge
In pleasures and danger

3. Have you not seen what Kisra built
And Sapur for one who crossed the desert

4. Its dwellings between the Tigris and Euphrates
Were shaded by trees

5. In a land that kept compassion away
From it, the acacia and the tent

6. He did not make its hunting grounds
Squares or pens

7. But they were gazelles with lovely eyes
Grazing with the cattle

8. And if we wished we would stir up the birds
In flocks from its outskirts

9. And if we said "Kill!" away from you
Their drinking of wine hastens

10. There comes to you the pure milk
Of she-camels, plucked off and squeezed

11. That is the life, not an abode
With its bleakness or pen

12. With the tent ropes of a free woman,
Where the sparrow twitters

13. So if you consider matters
Among the nomads

14. You, whichever man arrives
And does not find a bosom

15. And from wonder at their love
Of the rough, coarse desert

16. It was said Murqish perished
And he did not fail having determined

17. And the son of 'Ujlan perished
And was not aware of news

18. So a liar related about him
And said what he did not feel

19. Had the son of 'Ujlan been
Of affliction as was said

20. He would have broken a pact in love
And reproached himself for an excuse

21. You count the old man and judge
And jurists and the night conversation as nothing

22. The wild ass, the ostrich, and the hyena
Even if they blossomed

23. And singing diverts her from missing
That she ties on the camel saddle

24. And sets out in her litter
Hunting the wolf and tiger

25. By God I swear neither jesting
Nor raillery

26. If Murqish were living
His heart clinging to a memory

27. As if his clothes were adorned
With moons on his buttons

28. And he passed intending the office
Of taxes smeared with perfume

29. With a Sibari face, if its water flowed
It would drip pearls

30. Whose cheeks traced for him
Fragrances of ambergris

31. With an eye whose coquetry mixed
In its lids, dark-eyed beauties

32. His face increases your beauty
When you look at it more

33. He would be sure that the love of Murray
Embraces its plain and hill

34. Especially when some of them
If you greet them become enraged