1. Is there still affinity between us after parting,
The meeting has gone, does it have a return?

2. The ropes of connection have worn out until
Nothing remains but their scattered tatters.

3. The days of your absence have given happiness,
Your eyes gave mine a look of pleasure.

4. You turned away from the ways of love and its law,
And it's of wonders that the robed one turned away.

5. It would not have harmed you, as the mounts traveled
With you, had you gestured with an eyebrow and finger.

6. A farewell gift given to affinity in its folds,
To a yearning, burning heart and an aching soul.

7. It inhales the meadows of winds as if
They blew spreading your perfumed scent.

8. Lightning flashed on the sides of a dusty sunset,
Twisting branches, cliffs and bald mountainsides.

9. It dazzled him and the flash of lightning hid
The scent of meadows from the sleepy eyes.

10. It uncovered the shirt of patience from him, his yearning
And burning for the glistening lightning.

11. You shone so you renewed the sorrows and provoked
The innocent fire of love between the ribs.

12. I remembered the valleys appearing to me
Under the darkness, from a cold swamp.

13. Its cold nectar kindles the burning of love,
To a fervently burning heart and aching soul.

14. A gazelle trotted playfully before us
Between the sides and a place for playing.

15. A beautiful maiden passed by, her glance
Piercing the hearts of the infatuated from behind the veil.

16. She complains of the jewels being heavy when she walked
In her flock, clad in fine garments.

17. She seduced him, then glanced at me
So I was seduced, an overwhelming infatuation.

18. And I returned after the days of love had passed
To describe temptation to the passionate lover.

19. My eyelids pour when the dove coos
Above the shaking branches of the acacia.

20. I water the abodes after their people have parted
Leaving me to shed copious tears of grief.

21. And I address the ruins but none answer me
Among them except the iridescent raven.

22. And voices above the branches provoke me
Among them the cooing of the dozing dove.

23. She moaned for the soft branches and was intimate with them
Visible above them and audible.

24. She never parted with an intimate like she parted with me
No, nor have my tears flowed like planets.

25. By God, the lovers of old never found
My love for the gazelles’ young equaled.

26. O square of loved ones, how many times
Have I stopped at your burial ground among those four.

27. My tears pour over you instead of life
Flowing, so they're thought to be from a spring.

28. I observe the rights of my loved ones by shedding tears
For the buried, on the dust of the square.

29. And of wonders is that I uphold for them
The covenant of affection though mine is not kept.

30. They showed themselves so the sides of my life
Did not tremble after their absence, nor did my happiness subside.

31. And bustards wandered the expanse of a barren land
After the loved ones, in the motley desert.

32. hyenas flying from thepacks, their ululations
Like bamboo above pebbles and lava fields.

33. They trotted as ostriches trot to the watering place
Mocking the four winds in the meadow.

34. They avoided the vegetation from yearning for
Its lush plants and good grazing lands.

35. And after its good climate they changed
To hating the raging climate in the wasteland.

36. A group sways above the dust of the hyenas
Swaying on the tall-necked camel.

37. Swaying from fatigue as if they had
Become intoxicated by the flowing wine.

38. They propped their necks on its litters
Before dawn, returning to their loved ones.

39. Until they reached the abode of loved ones and passion
Guiding the riders to the twisting path.

40. They arrived while the packs had left much of their flesh
As prey for the famished wolves.