1. Stand awhile amidst the dwellings and ask the deserted abodes
About the vanished intimacy that once filled their halls

2. When will my happiness gather its burden and depart?
For brief is the happiness that fears its own leaving

3. Had it warned us of bearing it at morn
A caravan with tears would have escorted its baggage

4. I blamed youth that it was said to be heading towards it
And became hostile to the zephyrs for blowing to it

5. Even if my happiness had aided me in love of passion
Its inclination refused saying and disobeyed its whims

6. When it sent a specter to remind me of the pastures
I sent back to it with success its messenger

7. I experience passion whose embers are ever glowing
Sorrow whose flames I never quenched

8. The gaze of a sick person who turns his eyes
Though the visitor forgot in his oblivion his sickness

9. Do not blame the minister's power and do not be misled
By whether you hang on to him or his protection

10. Shining and the noblest of nobles that you see
His patron or his client to whom he clings

11. The leader of the army's cavalcade has power
To ambush it and take away its redundancies

12. When he weighs up the views he annuls the inferior
And moves the excellent closer to him

13. When he firmly places his feet in blood running
He returns those fiends back to their dens

14. His efforts are hoped for and his attaining is wished
Like Egypt is hoped for to fill up with its Nile

15. To him belongs a sword blackened for a people and he did not prevent
The generosity of men to blacken with their horses

16. The meadows desire to witness in his presence
Their cubs from his sword and his flocks

17. He surveyed the lands of south with munificence and gaining
And clasped in his sorrow their mountains and valleys

18. Even if the whole world were driven to him
No praise would touch him but he would spurn it

19. You remain forever the same since you began with favor
The clouds disdain to come with their showers

20. You gave the worshippers of extra deeds their request
Then why do not You give to poems their wish?

21. You appointed workers over the lands so appoint me
The steadiness of my house for a time I will not prolong

22. I intended to shorten the distance of praises
While Your right is to be given for Your generosity their fullness

23. I withheld the rhymes from You though they vie
To reach You pulling their reins out of yearning

24. To my country I will release to You their release
And none thanked the benefactor as I thank

25. When the speaker of people rewards their actions
How can You see me act in its plenty

26. When I am rewarded for plenty with little