1. Did you not see me in the market among us
A skirmish in our sale and tumult

2. He saw shiny copper coins by which
The dirhams went from them without return

3. I shed the camel’s blood from the top of its head
With an engraved sword from which serpents hiss

4. He deliberately slit my throat with his hands
A deadly wound from which blood spills

5. And he wounded me with a wound after which I thought
It would take my soul but here I am, unharmed

6. The sharp sword missed its way back
And I escaped from it losing while it won

7. I went to a shady, shaded place and a
Beautiful sight that appeals to the lost and hungry

8. And a blond olive tree whose fruits
Give its drinker the gardens of eternal Eden

9. And an alluring flute with which the regretful are confused
When the strings are moved, it hums

10. If an oppressor leans toward it with his palm
It kills and revives whoever sings for the oppressor

11. So I slept and two groups sat around me
One drunk with eyes clouded and one standing

12. And I woke up one day feeling very hungover
As if I was not the same as I was yesterday

13. The boys say to me that you are chiding
And they bother me with what is said that you are chiding

14. So I said to them clear the way for I
Am generous and good people are generous

15. If I was hurt perhaps
The youth betrays his hurting while asleep

16. But with the intoxication of drinking to carry harm
And the drinking companion avoids spreading ugly things

17. And the regretful start a new companionship
So he raises along with raising the obedient wine