1. They taught my eyes to ask for the horizons
With looks casting arrows at them insistently

2. They refused to allow me to see one not in love
So they made my heart set on seeing none but the passionate

3. It's as if when they determine to rob the vines
They blind me, so I enjoy no delight in sleep

4. I gave away my share of bliss to my critic
And tied myself to a lover binding ties

5. And I accompanied this love as a child and young man
But saw no dearer than the silent lover

6. I did not speak until longing drew tears from me
And the ancient days of passion reminded me

7. So I set out testing generosity in every source
And appraising people with the appraisal of coins

8. Thus I did not see the equal of Yemen’s lord
Humayd bin Mahmoud, ally of glorious deeds

9. He is the lofty mountain whose peaks
Rise above the stars’ clusters arrayed

10. If a people say he is like Hatem
In every limb of his there are many Hatems

11. So O Tai shield the prince, and whoever strives
For the honor of lofty lineage and pillars

12. You remained for your two days which were enhanced
By compositions in Arabic and non-Arabic

13. A day of severity overwhelming in oppression
And a day of pleasure gentle in compassion

14. And when God saw the dew in His servants
A place not upheld, the pillar of generosity

15. He gifted you an ocean of bounty, whose waves
Settle into its currents surging

16. If Tai surrenders its reins to you
Its finest treasures will be for the magnificent

17. And he rectified in it the tools of state
Referred to in the book of epics

18. Good fortune is not absent from the deserving
And impending events in the world are like those come