1. You were a hunter with your glances, aiming
So I followed with a spear when you became a gazelle

2. A weapon but it does not harm the beloved
And it penetrates whom it distances

3. It shows the rose of the cheek then brings it back
And I have not seen a rose in veils coming back

4. It has eyelashes that pass on sickness but it has no
Illness, and do dark poisons return healed?

5. It has a coldness, without which saliva is tasteless
So it was delicious, and if not for that, it would not be cold

6. And I swear I never intended any doubt
Towards a singing girl unless I was asleep

7. But when I saw its eyelids diseased
I sent my eyesight back cured

8. And if its eyelids were not seashells
They would not scatter pearls at dawn

9. I was assigned to love the white ones, and my heart inclined
To love the meadows, so I did not abandon the cages

10. The docile oryx pillows me with its forearm
When the pillow does not pillow me with its elbow

11. And my sword makes me happy against every aggression
If I cannot find in the two worlds a supporter

12. And I used to when I wanted to hunt
Some glory, send the guide ahead

13. And how many men, their clothes are less than their worth
Yet silk clothes the worthless too

14. So I am not impressed by the miser and his abundant money
Extra is a flaw even if it is surplus

15. Oh what a pity, Hittam, I praise an ignorant man
And compose poetry for one not worth poems

16. And I praise a people who do not know that I
Have rhymed them with necklaces or wreaths