1. Peace be with you, when its fragrance surrounds you
Its pleasant scent lingers about you

2. Sincere thanks that do not fade like the bouquet
Of blossoms that adorned its portico with wine's dew

3. I praise my Master who enabled me to praise you
Not shouting for Zayd or Amr in acclamation

4. You won his heart by your kindness redoubled
So he who was free became your willing slave

5. Let your condition make excuse should you sit still
For the cold you so lightly complained of to me

6. A cold that if the sneezer sought its rainclouds
The inhabitant of a mansion would have no need of rain

7. It has seized my brain and does not quit an hour
As a mother hen broods constantly over her nest

8. And were it not for this cold I would not sit
Though the talkative with her hennaed fingers intervened