1. With a slender, youthful figure
The delight of my eye, he who I desire

2. As if beauty itself saw his face
Needy of him, so he enriched me

3. His words then scattered through his smile
His eyelids broke from the glance

4. The lightning of his mouth flashed from a smile
Musk and coffee his smell

5. His buttocks rounded, grew heavy
His waist thinned, drew in

6. We visited a tavern at night
While the dark dawn soaked in its dye

7. A crescent moon rose over the horizon
Like the arch of his frowned eyebrow

8. Until when the tavern keeper listened
To our company walking, lent us his ear

9. He came to us hurriedly, busying
Himself with the wind, beckoning left and right

10. So he brought us coffee from his flask
From which shone the night of his singing

11. When we fattened him from selling it
He bubbled with anger when we fattened him

12. And said no noble like Majid
Had sought it, from what we knew

13. Give it back and weigh the like of it
In pearls and gold and weigh it

14. He disappeared from our sights for a while
Then returned to us and drew nearer

15. The thick-lipped one stood with the cup
If not for his cheek we'd have drunk it

16. As if it were his cheek in his palm
But it was the sugar that was his eyes

17. When he gave his boon companion his cup
He kissed its lip and sang

18. Perfecting pleasures is only for a lad
Who drinks while the tambourine plays

19. And none tired us but his glances
Oh rusher! His meaning has increased

20. If you suspect us, though against your will
We harbour it

21. And we never left her tavern
Drinking for a month or two

22. When the dawn silvers the darkness
And the cupbearer rouses us, we answer him

23. We scramble when he calls to us, as
A son scrambles to his father

24. And if some of what drink brings appears
From a friend, we excuse him

25. An ambiguous friendship between us
Its furthest in righteousness as its nearest

26. A legacy of a time passed
In which purpose is lost to us

27. The days of its prime were not
More beautiful to us, sweeter or gentler

28. As no speck in a sun for us
Settled that we disliked its settlement

29. Nor did we alight in it by
The judgement of days we impugned

30. But we come upon Majid
Who rains generosity on us, his right hand