1. The passion of youth is the brother and companion of adolescence
While old age is the disappointment and fading of desire

2. And I see you amazed by the passion of a lover
Who lingered long in the dwellings

3. He turned his hearing away from the reproach of the blamer
Blaming him is no use, nor rebuking him

4. And I refuse the slanderers on the day they set out
In which the well-built ones marched in their prime

5. A sun has set whose setting is our separation
And a full moon whose eclipse is estrangement

6. So when a flashing lightning endures from Tuhama
There follow black clouds with the southern winds

7. The commotion of night when its lightning flares
Startles the contentious in the sky, fluttering them

8. It quenched the thirst of meadows, the thirst of meadows' time
When we lounge in the meadows and their summertime

9. My feet chafed in Iraq and it pained them
In a stirrup the cold of Syria and its countryside

10. And the battle was met at the banks of Sajur
Where its pools and caves faced each other

11. And it disturbs me that a specter never ceases to visit me
Whose features absence does not make fade

12. And the cure for what the ribs feel of love sickness
Is a journey that weighs hard on the quiet and the lively

13. Unless fate prevents us from her we love
And the impenetrable denies us access

14. Or the conqueror son of Khāqān who
Is traditional in honor and refinement

15. A king in the highlands of Iraq, its pavilions
Sheltering the land, and we are its guests

16. I did not meet him before I met his grant
Bountiful, making me know his familiar generosity

17. His doors opened to me by permission
And his loftiness became easy before me

18. He favored me with care out of his affection
And his thousands followed with gift after gift

19. The exalted one granted me in his gift
A nobility that rose above the stars

20. Which of his two hands is greater in blessing to me
Enriching me or honoring me?

21. A rain pouring and its heavily clouded sky
Upon us, and a lion whose spears are gnarled

22. To him belongs command with his judgment so its execution
Is either resolved or suspended

23. The rebels, he bent them toward him with pardon. Had he wished
He would have bent them by force of swords

24. Blessings! When the envious are tested by their cause
They enliven him with favor while they are his gain

25. Say to the prince-what glory meets
Above the buildings of the prince, their ceilings?

26. As for the hospitality its first fault
Was that you were its protector and ally

27. When I met you, time was rent
And its events and turns grew calm before me

28. I felt safe from it though someone else guaranteed
Its days - from it I would not feel secure

29. If I deny the greatness you have given me
Then I am feeble in fidelity, indeed

30. Your generosity did not come first in merits
Unless your distinction to the wretched came with it

31.
Ghayzan, if successive drought comes

32. They are the hopeful spring and its autumn
So come, and your promise of the imamate, for it

33. Is a bounty that increases the benefit of your hands
And it is the caliphate. If his bestowal wanes,