1. O branch of fresh, glistening pearl
That brings joy to the eye and heart

2. A good day made me see you
No reproach on the benevolent

3. Yet it left me full of sorrow
My tears spilling ceaselessly

4. You are wronged but not wronging
In the East and West's judgment

5. Rather the wronged one's a servant of yours
Murdered though free of guilt

6. You seized his heart openly
Never repenting your theft

7. Why are your foes at ease
While your allies ache

8. Safety to war makers-bless them!
Peace lovers suffer war

9. You became, without affectation,
Like the soul 'twixt rib and rib

10. God sustain me against madness
With a draught of your sweet spittle

11. O love of the wronged-do not despair
I have no stratagem for you

12. You have plundered our souls
Yet we consent to the plunder

13. Your singing holds nothing excessive
Song within measured song

14. As if snake and singer fell
In desert, in time of drought

15. You surpassed all singers
As stars surpass people of Wahb

16. Beauty and kindness converged
Both hard to attain