1. If separation could be loved,
My tears would not have flowed in separation.

2. A moon on a branch lamenting,
Time passes by without illuminating it.

3. I lowered my eyelids when it erred,
And separation gazes at me and I gaze at it.

4. I held back my tears the day it bid me farewell,
On a cheek whose softness melted away.

5. I bid it farewell while the full moon mistakes it
For one tarrying at dawn with its brightness.

6. The night envelops its darkness,
And the dawn rises from it with its shining face.

7. My lips rush in conversation,
Almost outpaced by the steeds of tears.

8. On the day we met I was not deceived,
Nor was my love's relief a cheat.

9. When I unfolded it I knew
That separation would tear it apart tomorrow.

10. My eyelids wept while you glance at them,
My heart complained while you burn it.

11. I reserve my love for the best of people,
Not all my love for you do I spend.

12. An old love whose pact is pure,
And new love's finest aspect is its sincerity.

13. For one determined, restless,
His wakefulness lays him down gently.

14. I seduced the sun to set with its beauty,
And its rising splits the night with its light.

15. It flows while its creatures veil it,
Its radiance illuminates their faces.

16. It revealed the excellence it hides,
And spread the secret of excellence with its speech.

17. Rarely have its tongues risen,
Except describing its praise as radiant.

18. When it takes its seat the abode glows,
Commanding the passionate clouds to unload their rain.

19. When a king contemplates its aspect,
His knees touch the ground before its feet.

20. In its empty palm is a radiance that tells you
How its splendor has overwhelmed it.

21. Dazzled by the grace of its setting, it was overwhelmed,
While the water overwhelms its flowing.

22. The neighing horses dance in the meadows
When it sings to them, outstripping them.

23. The lightning in the clouds would prostrate itself in prayer,
If its hands could reach the ground cleft by its flashing.

24. It shelters guests while beyond its chamber's door
Is one closed against disasters.

25. When calamities shake its hand from stabbing,
Flatterers come to caress it.

26. The steeds of treachery are bare of any stain
That treachery could attach.

27. Generosity prevents it and commands it,
While fate pleads to it and separates it.

28. It is able, but its ferocity in violence
Is subdued by its gentleness.

29. Many wonders are its ships
Sailing behind the passionate winds that tear them.

30. You stirred its dust with eyelids,
While the heat scorched the idols and melted them.

31. Its elevation censured you and calmed you,
Its afndaf consoled you and caressed you.

32. Many are the streams whose surroundings
Do not comfort their flowing.

33. The water roars at its sides,
As the thirsty camels illuminate it.

34. When you observed time was shaded
By its darkness and narrowness was exposed,

35. You laid siege to it and tore down its wall,
And the one who fawns upon you rests in your comfort.

36. Such too are the care of the wind in a bough,
Bending it, or the water slapping it.

37. When the sovereign saw you with sword bared,
Terrifying and flashing it,

38. He scorned reforming his inclination,
And restrained his judgement burst its dam.

39. Generosity has set while you are its source,
And glory has waned while you are its source.

40. Many are the days whose morning light you have mocked
While death descends upon it and crushes it.

41. The sword takes its leave of it and parts from it,
The spear works upon it and releases it.

42. The sun runs unveiled in a garment
Of moisture that does not tear it.

43. The horses stamp patterns in their hooves,
Perfume they pass around and create.

44. You paralyzed your resolve in its battalions,
While the arrow paralyzes its perfected one.

45. So surrender to the days wearing them,
For time is a garment and you its tailor.