1. I have not met a maiden since she was a child
She went out cloaked, wearing a waist wrapper

2. Aqila came out, led by four white-faced ones
With faces like young ostriches

3. With your mind went a curled lock of hair
Which would be gifted if you were aware

4. So I intended to approach her unveiled
And the unveiled approach maidens like her

5. You are in the abode of kings while our people
Are neighbors to us in the valley, echoes and donkeys

6. So if I come to you I will come pretending
And if I fall short, how forced my falling short is

7. He swoops down, disheveled, his garment worn out
Anxiety keeps him awake through the night

8. And when the camels bellow, you see him
Like a solitary mountain the rainy clouds pour on

9. With smooth flat ground, as if emblems
Would leap forth if they emerged from it

10. And you see the morning as if a prayer niche in it
A bay horse carrying a sword-bearing man

11. Generous, a shelter; and Adam, an arbiter
Like following rain and thunder showers