1. With your charming excuses, I excuse you,
O jewel of the adorned sword.

2. A line on a cheek reveals and conceals
a softness, greener than grass.

3. Its partner splits to reveal
a tender willow, pleasing to the eye.

4. My lord, your face is paradise
and your soft drink is abundant nectar.

5. The musk of its seal exudes
a perfumed and sugared fragrance.

6. You are of the lineage of Japheth, exhaling
a toothbrush that keeps me awake and casts spells.

7. Smiling with emeralds
from a necklace of rubies and jewels.

8. Your hair curled like the darkness of night
and I thought dawn had broken.

9. Never before your camphor-like brow
did amber grow from it.

10. O narrow-eyed one, thus is the maimed Indian.
O waist-branch, no belt can tie you, knotted with a dagger.

11. O full moon, how many lost souls
in the night of your abandonment wandered astray.

12. Be gentle with one in love whom, whenever
he hides his affliction, it surfaces.

13. The body has turned sallow, emaciated,
while tears from the eyes are red.

14. If not for tears melting him,
a sigh would have ignited and flared up.

15. Whoever loves the lovely gazelle
sleeps while his critic stays awake.

16. My flirtations are for him and my praises
are allotted to our master, the victorious.

17. The noble, the affable, the dewy,
the Shah of Armenia, Musa the triumphant.

18. A king - if you support him, he enriches,
and if you oppose him, he impoverishes.

19. He ruins and he builds like time,
so he continues to be complained of and thanked.

20. He pours with the edge of his sword crimson
or with his spear-head, brown.

21. Pure is the gazelle and her pasture
from every blemish, purified.

22. It is as if his sword is a preacher
and his inspiration a pulpit.

23. He prayed in the prayer niche of heroism
and "God is great" is his call to prayer.

24. Among the spears, it is as if they are
a flood upon a fierce lion.

25. And it is as if he, among the ships
and battleships and vessels,

26. is a mountain, surrounded by
a green sea of waves.

27. In his conquests, he is righteous, even
if he kills the enemy, for one who perceives.

28. The washing of horsemen with blood
while in the stomachs of birds they are buried.

29. When the clouds of his army from
his arrows drink, it pours like torrents.

30. His clouds poured down
lightning from his arrows and calamities like fire.

31. O noble king, the qualities of your glory cannot be quantified.
O you who forgets his deeds

32. yet he is the one repeated and reiterated.
O inheritor of his fathers'

33. glory, on the Day of Resurrection to be mentioned.
You were granted in this life through him

34. glory, and in the hereafter much more.
For if he chose you for himself,

35. you will be fortunate with the one you chose.
So pride yourself on your soul

36. or through it, for it suffices as pride.
And congratulate yourself on a fast

37. whose reward is like one who prayed and broke fast.
And you will remain as long as praise of you

38. as victorious and triumphant remains.
O servant of our master the Imam,

39. the majesty of this elegy is more prominent.
You were given through it, in this world, nobility

40. and in your final abode, much more.
For if he chose you for himself

41. you will surely be happy with the one who chose you.
So pride yourself on your soul or through it

42. for it suffices you as pride.
And congratulate yourself on a fast