1. Play, my beauty, for passion is a game
And rouse the throbs of ecstasy aflame

2. Act out your lovely role
Upon the stage of literature

3. Move gracefully though
This caravan is wearied

4. For at the rhythm of its steps
Desires are sated, minds are cleared

5. Soothe these souls
Exhaustion has parched them

6. Entice them into bliss
Divert them from rage

7. Let not faces of gold
Dazzle and captive you

8. And lips that smile
Like the glow of flame

9. Search out intuitions
That would fill you with wonder

10. All this tumult is for
Your mirror and the clamor

11. The oud player knows not
Which string his hand did strike

12. Forgive him, for he
Is but a man confused, like us

13. And take the heart, for it
Leapt out from my ribs for you

14. Passion has mingled our blood
Respect the sanctity of kin

15. Many's the day desire drew
Me to it and I was pulled

16. And I grasped youth in
Its freshness after it had gone

17. Love of "Salma" a lad who saw
All he wished for, so loved

18. A poet, enraptured by life
Save for ecstasy, knows no joy

19. You "Salma" are life's
And happiness' own cause

20. You "Salma" are greater than
A thousand masters to their slaves

21. In your light sadness
And troubles melt away

22. And they, in the name of a nation
That crushed the highest heights

23. Weighed heavy on his back
As did the West when it prevailed

24. Left the trunk for the countries
And took for themselves the fruit

25. Open your hands Salma
That a loved one may kiss your hand

26. Take me away from "politics"
Deceit, hypocrisy and lies

27. And so we may together burn
Come with me and gather the kindling

28. And if there be none, take
Some of them for they are but wood

29. While all of them live
Me alone to be chopped

30. I alone among them
Dismounted while all rode

31. The people all pillaged
Joy to him who pillaged

32. Joy to him who invaded
Joy to him who plundered

33. Joy to him who bullied
Or betrayed or lied

34. For all that you see
Of "prestige" and "titles"

35. And "importance" of leadership
Name and rank

36. And "patriotic" ambition
Of the destitute and deprived

37. Are the rewards for the people's
Fickleness, joy to the one reversed

38. The slow lose the jewel
And the milker wins