1. The heart yearned for Salma though she was aloof,
Why so much pining and passion in vain?

2. Suad said, I wonder at this streak of grey,
Gently, Suad, grey hair is nothing strange.

3. You see time has clad me in its greyness,
What of it is past, from you was not hid.

4. A draught to Suad though grey has pained us,
Ere this when the head had no greying tress.

5. As though its saliva after distress dissolved
Towards the Pleiades with the wine of Halab.

6. I was gifted a brace of chicks, green young,
Half bones and strong smelling feet.

7. A difficult letter from the guide when the
Sun of day fills the reins of the lightning steed.

8. Till when they folded up and night wrapped in folds
Of the cavern's owner, dry wood and brambles.

9. They made for the chief of Kais and his chieftain's son,
The knight pure of them other than the liar.

10. Mohammed, his father and his son wrought
For him feats of glory and noble deeds.

11. The army of the faithful kindled fire beneath them,
Like torrent in a vale bearing firewood.

12. I praised them when I saw they had
Merit over others from all the Arabs.

13. None can fault me but you,
Who can praise me if you do not?