1. Alas, O murder, the new has been created,
And your love does not fade or pass away.

2. And it has hunted your heart when it shot it,
As if a hunter hunts the prey.

3. But it does not hunt when it shoots it,
Nor does a singer hunt the melody.

4. A lover's attachment and longing's agony,
And no happy man has bound you two.

5. Don't you spare your shyness or refrain
Your weeping like a newborn cries?

6. I saw people whose fire for you I did not shut my eyes,
Our drink being pokeberries and jujubes.

7. But I did not see fire kindled like it, except
For which glance did the fuel bloom?

8. It lit up the whites of the eyes of a child
Heaped up in his unique wrappings.

9. With a face like dawn and intoxicated,
On the likes of rose and narcissus.

10. Smiling from a shy, charming mouth,
When given a kiss, asks for more.

11. As if its starts were tied to a rock
And stars that revolve and wander.

12. If I said the time for its setting has come,
The Pleiades and Suhayl ascended.

13. So whichever declining beauties there were,
The fire was extinguished and the pillar collapsed.

14. Look, there are gazelles early in the morning,
On them are sagacity and bounty.

15. As if musk deer and wild cows fleeting
Wearing bracelets and ice on them.

16. When those hips quivered
And you with them one morning conferring.

17. So it is a coquetry that will return embers
And a pillar whose inclination you do not want.

18. You were not deterred from coming to a people
Who are enemies and livers are black.

19. So if you leave me, find me a replacement,
A man who gives plenty and profits.

20. The likes of you I have sported with
And lands whose glory no noble leads.

21. My companion and I took a break at Mayyun
Like a roaring lion, a long poem.

22. As if the hated camel saddle of it
Is the ravaged saddle or a lord bound.

23. As if its saddles are of young she-camels
Sought by one with amazing separation.

24. He lodged at Remlah of Al-Baqqar one day
And there the frost struck him at night.

25. It folds over him when the water flows off him
The tree branches and the hanging monkey-bread.

26. So he shakes off the flooding from him in the morning
And ties his belly tight, iron bands.

27. With belts like seashells drawn
With which battle is repelled and fended off.

28. Or is it the belly wrap a coarse garment
Obeyed by ostriches and hedgehogs?

29. Turning blades in it with refusal
Expecting that which comes to destroy.

30. Of it remained the summer, and it became ramshackle
And much remembering and sitting increased.

31. When he tosses back and hits his nostrils
And his forehead, as the boulder is hit.

32. That is when the old camels refused to welcome
The brush of worries and the confused mingled.

33. So if you asked the slain about us
When the cheeks forgot the troublemakers.

34. Berating him as old age changed him
And healed his heart, severe pain.

35. He who joined us from us saved him
While we were the delegation when roads were blocked.

36. We did not ask thanks of him, but rather
Entrust the praise of that to the Intender.

37. And people whose tusks are turned against us
Then deterrence did not bar the threat.

38. They sought us out so we sought what they had
And they almost destroyed us with their stupidity.