1. O you who are amazed
By the story of al-Aziz's wife and Joseph

2. Than any we knew or did not know
By her right and his she tempted me

3. A female and a whiteness like an erect rod
So cease your wonder at them, and wonder

4. At two old men, both like bishops
The decrepit one enticed me with his agedness

5. Tell me which glance did I not glance with
His verse in his abode made me hope

6. That he would complain to me of passionate love
An old man tempting his like, both

7. Having crossed seventy with steps faltering
He kept unveiling me and kissing, aroused

8. Until I mounted the back of a barren donkey
I uncovered him, stripping his clothes

9. To reveal an ugly, split replica
As if the white of his replica surrounded

10. Scattering the mixture on the sides of a trough
I endured a remembered night from him

11. If not for God's defense, it would not be exposed
It was as if his night upon me in its length

12. Labored till dawn at the place of standing