1. The abodes are delighted by their falcon-like maidens
Whose tattooed wrists and ankles gracefully sway

2. They occupy the chambers happily
Moving about smoothly, gracefully, and without affectation

3. They bit into springtime with their blossom-like mouths
And into it they planted the twigs that do not dry up or wither

4. You would see the hundreds of clansmen encircling them
And you would see the radiant moons of their camels

5. When you approach them, you would hear the excited talk
And neighing, and you would see the most beautiful sight

6. In the courtyards of the abodes, guarded
Are lines of stallions, neighing together without pretentiousness

7. They had inhabited the abodes, but an ardent resolve divided them
A fiery desire, whose heat cannot be resisted

8. It scattered them into separate groups, some settled
Others yearning for you, not caring for anything else

9. O abode, weep for your condition after we departed
Did the passage of time alter your circumstances?

10. If time has changed you, still I see no one but
Khaulah's equals as your inhabitants

11. The lofty litters were covered in the decorated cloth
Of glorious rank, without any payment

12. When your time was righteous, I saw you
White, glorious, abundant in bounty and beauty

13. The beautiful eyes of the gazelles that seem to have begged them
And so were granted them by the terminator of lifespans

14. The maidens said on a day of farewell, “farewell to you
On a day when they regained glory and were reunited

15. They panicked from a calamity that befell their parting
Until the late dawn rose like a new crescent moon”

16. Passionate love distracted them in their isolation
But my thoughts do not wander or get confused

17. I would ride the steed, walking this way
What a sight! What coquetry and charm!

18. Like Indian swords dripping with oil
And yesterday their blades were polished

19. Blow after blow, strike after strike
And two joined strikes of swinging swords

20. Throwing sparks, while the horseman above
Sits a smooth-gaited and swiftest steed

21. I assigned to each champion the delivery of a message
And to each highborn lady an answer

22. Small yet firm of grip on the reins
After being tethered, ready to bolt

23. As if their robes and scarves were heavy rain
And the man above a lofty, bucket-shaped cloud

24. In the evening it descended beneath the shade of the imagination
Its twilight gloom killed the new crescent moon

25. Approaching him as if its pillars were
Brooks of Iraq, dripping with burdens

26. Lodging to have its exterior lit without need of lamps
Until the pillar cracked as if

27. A guide roared without pretentiousness
And in the morning its interior glistened as if

28. A lamp dispelling the darkness of night
They departed distressed, you can see their litter-camels

29. Bound to each other with tethers
Walking heedlessly with their thick forelocks covering their eyes

30. And ostrich feathers adorning their equipment
And guarded they went, but when they turned away

31. Their groups were returned to the advance
Struck black as if it were the blackness of their eyeliner that we hope

32. Contains the same enchantment as kohl
Disheveled as if they had been folded like

33. Manuscripts when they departed while the camels strayed
So it snapped when it saw the insight displaying

34. Its power, which has no succession
It does not persist, leaving the slave girls as if

35. He were in al-Sabiri and they have no allies
He made the youth sniff his mustache as if

36. It were Mars that let down their veils
Until when they broke away from him in a narrow pass

37. And they had the terror of a witness and a seeker
The panting of a risky venture endowed with help

38. Protecting and involving every terrified state
Protecting and repelling them, not lying,

39. Casting like the overflowing clouds of bounty
Did he get accustomed to the clanging of arms in battle

40. And the shedding of blood without fighting?
No! indeed a canal gushed that shook

41. Every pulsing vein in an absent heart