1. When a day passes for a man without good tidings
His soul had not been mindful of remembrance

2. And a day we gave thanks in, with the prime of youth
And the forthcoming of a plentiful life, time gave generously

3. We arose early with the branded one, a beautiful landscape
With it, we wandered through its beautiful flowers

4. We succeeded in what souls desire of wishes
And what hopes yearn for in their fresh greenery

5. With the scent of souls from a fragrant garden
Where the morning breathes the ambergris of dawn

6. The senses gathered towards it as the drunkard’s
Senses gather towards wine for wine

7. The gardens of eyesight informed us of our gathering
To race towards the pleasures in the field of life

8. Where the cloak of fertility in its slopes
Is absent, and the steeds of comfort race us through

9. And where the orator of the valley sings through it
With the speech of a bow that has ringing and hail

10. And where the breeze of the two beloveds is saturated
With the twisting strands of the scent of the two enclosures

11. From a garden of song running through it
Streams flow from a river to a river

12. Letters walk through with affection between them
Revealing to us what secrets lie in their breasts

13. And from a branch that the morning breeze tilted
Touching a branch adorned with flowers

14. And at the side of the valley a moaning dove
Of leaves complains of separation in the green leaves

15. Wailing after the warbling of a young girl
As Al-Khansa’ wailed one day over Sakhr

16. I asked her, what is this meadow that
Makes the heartache more intense for the bearer of tidings

17. And what is this sorrow, elegy and crying
And who combines two opposites and reconciles in a chest

18. She said, do you not know that the brother of passion
Deceives the essence of life and does not know

19. I remembered covenants in the sanctuary other than what you see
So in the heart from the recollection is flaming embers

20. And the saying of a poet proved true in us
I held its reins until death

21. Does a person obtain from all that is with him
Except by remembrance, which time forgives

22. When she clarified what she hides of agony
And the hidden saying unveiled the superficial matter

23. I cried over a covenant fulfilled and I had not been
The first to cry, his heart afflicted by the memory of departure

24. And I turned my eyes to the meadows over there
Worn by time, from fang to claw

25. They returned to ruins after their people had passed
And went with a palm full from their kinsmen ashen

26. From a temple of pleasure, a temple surges
And from a house of straw to a palace

27. And it suffices you from it a monastery still standing
Testifying to the news of events in its information

28. So many circles of companionship tied their bond of intimacy in it
And appeared with eloquence and good tidings

29. And how often the caller in it called out at their mornings
And life is but like a phantom that walks

30. So when their times drew near, the nights' circumstances stumbled upon them
From loyalty to betrayal

31. And whoever sends thoughts into all that he sees
Can overturn them, if he wills, from belly to back