1. How is he when time flees with him,
The past of a youth you sought in its pursuit.

2. If I intend the time that is nearing, I find
The distance of a star less than its approach.

3. It rejects the shining old age, as the sieve
Rejected the bran from its flames.

4. The stubborn blamer has grown accustomed, so I
Do not listen to his excessive habit.

5. If the true speech saddens me,
Then give me what pleases me of his lies.

6. I flee from the sincerity of his blame
To the refuge of his lies.

7. Your view is in a boat that wants you
To help its intestines against its wits.

8. A morning draught that heals him of his tipsiness,
Or an evening cup that redeems him from his intoxication.

9. And the beloved may show me smiling,
The thirst of ardour quenched from his moustache.

10. The coolness of acceptance when the urinator
Wets his robe and strikes in his hitting.

11. I wander amongst a group and many lands,
Where the crooked staff is counted as its firewood.

12. Glory will not be helped in its aid
Except by the established in his rank.

13. The stingy man is deceived about his honour, but not
The rich man, beyond his need.

14. The most loyal of those chosen are the bare, so if
He settles far off, your partner in his reckoning.

15. The talkative boaster is not broken, even if
The destroyer purified him of his fleas.

16. We forget the days’ hands on us, so we
Recall of our days only its shifts.

17. Why don’t we thank the days for the generosity of my father Isa
And what wonders he has shown in his marvels?

18. The hopeful anticipate in his hand
Occurrences of rain absent from its pour.

19. They cover its droplets as if they were
Snatchers of air biting from its heart.

20. As if they distinguish from the cleft of
The cave what they distinguish of its gold.

21. Matters are concluded in his seriousness when
The necks of properties twist in his play.

22. And praise is worn by none but the young man
Who snatches the precious from its plunder.

23. He rose high in gifts like the outpour
Of gifts in its cascade.

24. He gives people of manners the status of
The peers if they shared his manners.

25. It did not disturb them that the strut of kings
In the eye and tread upon heels.

26. Other than the neglectful of people, nor the agent
Reliant in his knowledge upon his books.

27. Circling correctness, secured from
His obstinacy in the impossible, or his chaos.

28. He does not slight the non-Arabs in his disdain
Leaning to the generality from his Arabs.

29. His prestige increases when he calls
To witness his absence to his unknown.

30. The best of your chiefs are the greatest
Whom elevation elevates in his lineage.

31. I gathered my group to him, taking
My staff as a vessel to his staff.

32. And he had sufficed himself leadership
From the mother of the road from its paths.

33. The veil protects from it a spectacle
That appears like the new moon from its wraps.

34. And his pride may escape the blamers
When the lion of the lair snarls in its thickets.

35. We do not lack length in his consent, nor
Fear the wrong of excess from his anger.

36. May God protect you from what you fear
Of the vicissitudes of time or its consequence.

37. He sent far from your abundant gift a wretched
One from having an evil outcome.

38. I seek an intercessor with you, or a means
With you among the people, so I increase you with it.

39. And it is injustice that the young man seek a means
To make it a connection to its means.