1. If love caresses him
What will the heart do?

2. Is it wrong if, though aged,
It yearns and flutters for the gazelles

3. That passed by the herd?
O my pounding heart, habit

4. Has been to dismiss passion
And my years are over fifty

5. Yet have not made me wiser
Shall I turn away if a kohl-eyed one

6. Throws me a glance on the path?
Pass it round, o cupbearer

7. Pass the circulating cup
And say to those blaming me for chasing passion

8. "Bow down to it!"
And leave Oman drunk

9. On brazen hypocrisy and lies
I have jested a little, so I apologize

10. As I reckon it is enough, Aleppo
Do you not know that it, like you,

11. My brother, has a Lord?
So do not blame or praise

12. Neither fodder nor water nor grass
Evil is the right that does not protect

13. Those under the wing of the stern and angry
In a fake market since

14. The beggars crawled
With your thickets, O olive tree, the wolf

15. Has become emboldened
And since I saw beggars

16. Complaining to the path
I have decided, O regret,

17. Not to walk but to crawl