1. My weakness has doubled since the absence of loved ones
And their stern brows have been veiled from me

2. Since those stars set, they have not ceased
To be occupied with me in guiding the stars

3. So neither grief departs from me with a passing scent
Nor life approaches me with one who comes

4. A wailing woman cried out mournfully with anguish
And stirred up misgiving in the heart of the mourner

5. She laments over a branch, and I lament for the like of it
Does one present weep the sorrow of one absent?

6. In the valley, in the valley of Al-Ghoutatayn, are your meadows
My springtime, and from that soil is my dust

7. My burning and my longing for you increase
When my companion calls to me, "Stop by the abode!"

8. And I desire it from elegant gardens
So the vicissitudes of fate divert me from it

9. The smiles of the beauties remain
When the eyes of the clouds weep over them

10. As if the flashing of lightning in their sides
Were the swords of the helper of religion among the regiments

11. A young man who did not refrain until his spearhead was bloodstained
As if the striking against him were the blow of a piercing blade

12. His saddlecloth is a blanket on the back of a swimmer
And his coat of mail is armor on one who does not flee

13. Tomorrow he set out aspiring to glory, not an ascetic
And in anything other he was an ascetic, not aspiring

14. Saladin thinks the knights of Gallaq
Are like his knights. The lion is not like jackals.

15. Tomorrow Damascus will charge the Franks with a regiment
Whose heroes are accustomed to misfortunes

16. Men, when the cross stands, their spears
Are crucified in every charging horseman and rider

17. For them the night has drinking and the tongues are stars
So none but heroes and none but wildly blowing winds