1. Her apparition graced us when she sent
Does love withhold itself except to grudge?

2. He threatens though I sinned not overmuch
Seizing slander from backbiter and flaunting fop

3. My pride rejects though love hates that I relinquish
I clasp my heart lest it from bondage slip

4. Does thatDecoder think I will cower meek?
Glory disdains that I kneel down and grovel

5. You claim I set my heart on trinket fair
If so, God grant not stumbling unto him who slipped

6. Know you not passion goads me to the fray
When the train from Jurayna shows its banners bright?

7. I cheer the Yemani lightning flash outbursting
And split the wing-flap of the wind uprising

8. I swore to guard the tender intercessors
Though love exacts from them vast permutation strange

9. The plighted pillars of our plighted faith
Bring us a world unplowed, fields untilled

10. Bud-like they rose their veils Belle-like decorous
As shades of maidens slender-wasted, lovely

11. Hair-tumbled tokens Jaghbubs valor lent them
The Caabas corner shall my palm anoint they vowed

12. The decree spills from them phials sealed
On glorys hand the rain poured copious

13. Nothing we see but some bold horseman charging
His flowing shift by windy Autumn swept

14. Should others clasp my hand within their dwelling
I shall not wet my spear-head with smooth oils

15. And I said: Splendor of faith his purpose hardened
To aspirations loftier than high heaven

16. Nor in the thick of fray left he Dhirgham there
Faint-heart nor eastward turner churlish

17. Nor did the meadows green though looking on them
You see no brother for the rain rejected waning

18. A youth whose cheek outshone when he smiled
As though the full moon daubed his face with brightness

19. He is the rain its largesse on the country pouring
He is the lion guarding the wilds bounds

20. Our refuge when the day comes cruel
Named if menace rears its head

21. A word of his the monarchs prize compliance
His counsel meets affairs solid

22. As though the stars the orient obeyed his bidding
Did one oppose, its light would soon be waning

23. Without his rank all rivals meet rebuffing
Did glorys star embrace the brilliant planets clustering?

24. Those who aspire to be his peers
Will find their eyes with dusty collyrium crammed

25. When came the Feast unto Juraynas precincts
A bright smile greeted guests reflecting

26. Favor him who hides malice within his breast
For you have power: destroy him or protect!

27. Chide gently: underneath runs friendship sleek
Hearing a thin-drawn praise you will not accept

28. I look around, alarm assails from every side
Parting I feared not, or from thee to stray

29. You have betrayed me, yet you found it sweet
You have disappointed me, hoping to make amends

30. Lies of informers and envy multiplying falsehoods
When truth avails him not, will fabricate

31. You have exposed us all to exile spared not
A brood to rend hearts valve and tendon

32. Given our chaste repute to every wanton
Quaffing envys poison mixed in deadly draught

33. Beyond you I shall plant no date-palms
To reap their fruit when the spadices bend

34. Is it not ugly I should rage, you tranquil
While you do what does not please us in the end?

35. Straying, your name omitted from my verse
While others I importune at lengthening tether

36. Men say of me: Around him doom impends
Yet I feared not to lose my bosom friend

37. Lo! I have resolved to leave and on some morn
My camel turns her flanks toward the empty wilderness

38. Who then will sing your praise as I have done?
Compared to me your eulogists are slatterns

39. Now smoothing speech snares magic-wise
Now verse when sadness makes the Muse an eas

40. His daybreak thronged with beauties freshly budding
His sunset garlanded with shooting stars gold-shining

41. Sweetly my words defend your glorys thrusts
Enemies perforce swallow humiliation subtly

42. Still you remain a refuge for your petitioner
Endure, your days the wishers hoping