1. Did you not ask the empty quarter that it might speak
And would the barren plain today tell you

2. I stood there until my blindness lifted
And the spacious yard was filled by the restive, the snorting

3. With mingled spirits between Suiqa and Ahda
He frowned, after your absence it seemed to create

4. It was harmed by misfortune every evening
By the blowing wind and dripping rain

5. And my friend said this is but madness
Does it not restrain the stubborn heart that it may follow

6. Be firm though she was generous to you
Perhaps you may free yourself from the fetters of yearning

7. So I said to him that separation makes me yearn
And some of the distance and remoteness is more ardent

8. Perhaps you are sad and extending madness
And showing complaint against people who scattered

9. And what my enemies conspired against me desire
And from the skin of a sleek buffalo stripped

10. And whiter than the water of polished iron
It has elegance after paying the due tax

11. When it rises high extending its bridle
As the hide of the dappled extended and ripped

12. And white heifers bending their backs
When sturdy rumps and cruppers stood up

13. Heifers who knew no misery of life
By them the onlooker becomes distracted

14. And I rushed from passion to them after
I walked while my insides trembled with fear

15. With me a sword whose blade the whetstone made smooth
It had elegance when raiding the tax

16. Had I not cunningly contrived with a visitor
By it to loose some heifers towards them

17. It drags by the poles of the litter, paralyzed
In it the adorned Persian ripped

18. The yearning that was between us, Abathnah
Is as smooth as henna when it peels and forms

19. Abathnah, you did not distance yourself except as though
I by the star Al-Thurayya did not distance