1. If I had health to live by
I'd never worry about life's disasters

2. Rather, I'd go where my ancestors went
Abundant in life to plunder

3. Secluded in the mountains, taking refuge
In their caves, overlooking books

4. Casting myself into wilds that knew
Naught but misery, woe and war

5. I flee those whose affection for me cooled
No cure is better for my heart's pain than flight

6. I greet the dawn, but no
Eyes see save those of falling stars

7. And don the night wherever its
Floods flowed like clouds and rain

8. And mount the sea chanting while
Its swaying shakes me like rapture

9. I scoff at people who were created
Disheveled, unkempt, for food and drink

10. I carry my heart in my hand so if
Weakness befalls me I die of my fatigue

11. What of a man who dies if he
Lived without purpose or profit

12. O land where are the gaping
Graves, the perishing in dust

13. And where are the worms disputing
My body to end my alienation

14. O fate long has my soul's wandering been
In this narrow, crowded confusion

15. And long the wandering of feeling whose
Yearning is for she whose love is a lie

16. If only a gentle ray of affection
Guided our eyes in the blind gloom

17. Omar, God, you are the greatest I meet
And death you slept despite my plea