1. After her tribe had moved on, she returned
When she saw my sword lying nearby

2. And roared at me with the roar of a lioness
That almost straightened my bent ribs

3. She spent the night among the necks of the riding camels
Going back and forth, coming and returning

4. I stood up calling out, and there was Suhayl
Throbbing like a frightened heart

5. As if the stars of your night, when
It dropped its anchors, were nails in shields

6. And among the people of Hejaz a flock
Whose faces seemed like flowers of springtime

7. Circling the canines with more intense desire
As if its pleasantness was melting ice

8. Its face takes the place of every sun
Which sets from sunset to sunrise

9. I appealed to it in my dream, so it wearied,
And the dream brought it without an intercessor

10. I do not forget in the garden of sorrow Reem
Who spreads passion from a wounded heart

11. And the eyes of the gardens are looking
At me with eyes of exquisite flowers

12. The pearls of dew in it glittered
As eyes brimmed over with tears

13. And I'm not confident in my eyelids
Which showed what my ribs had hidden

14. And whoever conceals love with their eyelids
Showed what my ribs had hidden

15. May God water the living with passion, for I
Am one whose heart inclines towards Nejd

16. He has watered it with pouring abundant rain
With generosity like that of my generous father

17. And if his fingers were to tell of a cloud
The times would be in spring because of him

18. I descended on him, and he met me with a face
More radiant than the blushing dawn

19. And water from his cheerfulness fresh
And a garden from his virtues flourishing

20. He has the hand of a benefactor, and the modesty of a companion
The generosity of a squanderer, and high ambition

21. The experience of a seasoned veteran, and the valor of a warrior
And the preserved honor of an oath keeper, and an overflowing life

22. When gifts are mentioned he shakes with longing
For it like the quivering of a polished sword

23. He yearns to give like Qays yearned
For Layla's recognition of the meadows

24. So do not praise him for giving gifts
For no other has the ability to do so

25. The hilt of his sword is the course of gifts
And the strike of his sword the course of nobility

26. A purpose and an end like poison folded over
Coating the shield and piercing spear

27. And if the sea rained with the generosity of his hands
It would take on the colorations of the terrified

28. When I weighed him against the people entirely
I saw some equalling the multitude

29. He is endowed with an opinion by the discerning
Who see events before they occur

30. With forbearance, deaf towards the worldly life
And hearing for the questioner of his generosity

31. Beneficial, yet destructive, sweet yet bitter
Harmful to the upper classes, beneficial to the weak

32. With a chest as vast as his horizon
And giving as quick as the asker

33. When his sons appeared to us we witnessed
The fine origin from the fine branches

34. Seven stars, the number of the Pleiades
And their position is one of high nobility

35. They have not ceased to be as unified as its stars
Against events, in an impregnable fortress

36. You see around him brave lions from among them
Whenever the time of trial descends in any misfortune

37. They characterized him in appearance, nobility, generosity
And valor in the clash of multitudes

38. You see them, whenever the heels
And the elevated past pushed forth

39. Abu Mani` brandishes swords around them
To straighten the defiant and restore the lost

40. May he have pleasure in them, and they in him
Until death without any agony