1. I was created vigilant, gentle of rein,
Honored of ardour, impetuous of soul.

2. The days have darkened, but in their events
I have dwelt secure.

3. If my past days are gone,
My fate and the future days are mine.

4. I enjoyed the shades of youth
And the censurers were deaf to my obedience.

5. I arrested my eyes on the buttocks of the beautiful ladies
And wrested my reason from attending to their charms.

6. The night discloses its brightness,
And morning is like fire amid smoke.

7. She moves therein with the sagging of dew,
A necklace slung around the neck of language.

8. Terrifying with eyelash, folding dimple,
Feminine of seducement, sick of hips.

9. Crested, its train recoiling
From a wave pulled by a suppling bough.

10. Bedecked, its gown fluttering
As if it were embroidered on silk.

11. In her hand a murdered gazelle
Curling in sheets of purple.

12. When she turns away, it reveals
Sparks and she smiles from a harvesting of souls.

13. When her pearl laughs, it leaves it
A dew on ground of saffron.

14. Her breaths remind me of a sorceress
And the night and morn loose rein.

15. The intoxication of breaths of the prince
Who attained all he desired despite time.

16. O quill of the nation, spill what
You love, for the noble have submitted to you.

17. The prepared for ease - how can it be depicted
Except by wine and spears?

18. Resolution and determination are his munitions,
Wealth and sword his two armies.

19. The Nile has risen and clad the countryside,
So festoon the rims of your goblet.

20. And accept pleasures and summon them
With diversion, carousing, and tunes of the lute.

21. Revel, and turn the face of joy to a garden,
Where smiles like the faces of beautiful maidens blossom.

22. Roam the meadows of glory in delight,
And inhabit the days in the shade of congratulations.