1. The dawn shone brightly for us, so come here -
And drink, O most delightful companion!

2. Why all this procrastination when youth is obedient
And time is lenient, and the beloved complies?

3. Rise and start your day with the sun in your cup,
With stars that rose from the goblets.

4. Pale yellow, its coldness kindled -
I was amazed by fires in the heavens!

5. Its bubbles flow from the rim of cups
And pearls gathered from the darkness.

6. You see the thread of dawn spun out
When it slipped from the niche onto the shelves.

7. A maiden whose temperament does this - don't you see?
The veil of her chastity in the palm of the cupbearer

8. Who hastens with her on the back of the mule,
Effeminate in gait, dexterous in movement.

9. Her tresses tumbling down faster than him,
Twisted like black snakes.

10. He knows the positions of his flasks,
Between one turn and the next arrival.

11. If our livelihoods were dispensed by his right hand,
Time would be just to the needy.

12. My share of time is little, and these are
My sighs about me, and these are my words -

13. I complain to the most noble king,
King Al-Ashraf, foremost in glory,

14. A king whom, when events grew obscure, you saw
Bright-faced, distinct in features.

15. If he had come earlier, his brow
Would have been more fitting than lamps for illumination.

16. A puller of the reins of vast armies, flocks of birds surround him,
And breaker of the expanses.

17. The traditions of God's victory assured him
That they would flow in their customary manner.

18. A lion whose teeth are daggers tore through
The most tangled thickets and disappeared into the forests.

19. From their iron helmets emerged their faces,
Like moons in halos.

20. Their boldness took control of the ring of iron
As if they were lions on hilltops.

21. With them the glorious one plunges into the depths of perdition -
How much he risked for the faith from flooding!

22. How many kneeling bows did his spear make in the throats of the enemy,
And how many prostrations did his sword make in battle!

23. Brown steeds whose thirst is only quenched
When watered with blood from skulls.

24. The clash of swords distracts them - how different
From the nature of grazing sheep is the nature of war horses!

25. The shadow of tents is their rest area and bedding,
A band flying off toward raids.

26. Sorrels the dawn chose over the darkness,
So it rose, and its horizon was from the mountain peaks.

27. Reds intertwined with the branches of oleander -
There must be thorns along with roses.

28. Meteors with which the devils of enmity were pelted
And flowed like the flowing of flaming meteors.

29. This is he who brought abundance to servants and their Lord
With wonders of benevolence and good deeds.

30. This is he who did without advisors in
The management of prudent opinion and banners.

31. This divine one in whose day
You are forewarned before tomorrow of what is to come.

32. Eyes illuminated by the light of God convey what they see
From a heart purer than a mirror.

33. Glory to Him who gathered all virtues in Himself
And decided to disperse His wealth!

34. When the branch bent over its dunes,
I consoled my heart by plucking its pomegranate.

35. I attained from its saliva and cheek
Something sweeter than its scent and basil.

36. It seemed the letter dāl in coquetry was a flourish
Added by a copyist to his manuscript.

37. He tightened his cummerbund beneath his robe
Among his roses and lilies.

38. As if he were a gazelle who feared separation,
So he wrapped himself in the folds of his garden.

39. His single hair terrifies me in an embrace,
For it is like the night of his abandonment.

40. Its ends tug under his bodice
Stingily with what is tied beneath his sleeves.

41. O critic, if I cry over every separate torment,
It is its nature to expose from its nature.

42. You are spared what I have been afflicted with,
While my heart is busy with its torments.

43. Indeed, he who guided me into passion
Led me astray from the path of its diversion.

44. The suffering of his eyelids passed into my body,
And the cheek most savagely burned my breast.

45. If you do not see the full moon among its stars,
Look at it among its peers.

46. I am jealous in the racetrack of his cheeks
Of the dust from its racecourse.

47. Your enemies, O Moses, receive
What his rotating spheres gave at their striking.

48. The most noble, generous king, may the glory
Of his reign last, O King Al-Ashraf!

49. A king the reins of time are in his hand,
And so it changed like the changing of its colors -

50. White the day his favors set forth,
Red the day his lances were seized.

51. His enemies rule by his aid
When the stars of his arrows rise.

52. The Mosul armies that were shattered
Tell of themselves and his horsemen -

53. The day of Abu Shazza when the spark of horses flashed
And lit the fires of his spears.

54. They were arrogant in their gathered stratagems,
So his serpent miracles confronted them.

55. The sea of his army drowned them, and so they were
Like the people of Pharaoh beneath its flood.

56. O heir of the earth, and its grantor!
O king, may the glory of his reign endure!

57. None can accomplish destroying your glory unless
The Creator has built the foundation of its pillar.

58. The crown of Chosroes is no match for his turban,
And his palace is not like his court.

59. O people whose nobility increased whenever
A volume was read bearing its title!