1. My cheek's beauty forsakes intoxicating wine
Youth's pleasure is not my business today nor my desire

2. Passion has died, so I do not hearken to musical rhythm
Nor make my eyes shed tears through wakefulness

3. He who loves glory pays no heed to singers
A handsome appearance brings no joy to a gloomy heart

4. I have been busy with glory, neglecting what gives pleasure
And the sleepless arise not for conversation

5. I have folded the rope of time which I used to mourn
When I pulled at it, taking some lifetime with it

6. May God not distance those whose litters are covered
And yearning has brought heart and sight together

7. O a halt behind the night I was accustomed to
That was the result of patience, whose desire was barren

8. And ecstasy overpowers me, a heart I cuddle
And tears prevent my eyes the pleasure of seeing

9. I came upon them when the camels were being saddled
And the night glanced at me with bright stars

10. I pretend to the dog to show its barrenness
And the living one from me, when they sleep in negligence

11. And in the tent which my heart worried about
A glitter from the eyes of the does and cows

12. I brought her out and we conversed from a distance
From the tents, lightly stepping in slippers

13. Then I turned away and dirtied nothing but some fragrance
On my bosom, from the wind blowing its sweet scent

14. The clouds do not neglect land where they dwell
Nor did the sweet rain pass over them

15. The breeze dragged over their abode
A train and clothed it in the softness of magic

16. And my weeping is not for a familiar group I was anguished about
Except for every blooming hero

17. They did not fight against fate unless its side
Truly the mourned one is most deserving of victory

18. O for men a prayer not pointed to
Except for a purpose, in humiliation and caution

19. Return the departure, for the heart is departing
And travel, for the eye's tear is traveling

20. And the day the valleys of Babylon roared
With horses in the finery ofsegmentation and fraud

21. We stood, every hero shining behind the scarf
As if his adornment were in a page of the moon

22. I refuse a folk I do not visit
The herd bleated from the blood of the udders and lips

23. A stab just as the betrayal examined at daybreak
He threw and scattered the water's union with a rock

24. And an ignorant one attacked my honor without cause
I restrained myself without weakness or limit

25. My friends protected him from me if I were to punish him
Just so are the fleshes of prey protected by the hyena

26. And a flashy one, like the claw of an egg
Disgraced by flags and wine

27. When the sun hangs over it, it angers her
The burning of timber by the rivers and treason

28. I choked his dust by force prevailing
Over the survival, the necks of roses and breasts

29. I roam the countries to what I am not disgraced by
Of countries, and what I conceal of danger

30. Ignorantly, I do not think the wolf knows them
Nor has a tracker walked in them by a trace

31. The wakeful brave forgets his need in them
And a man awakens in them with dead experience

32. Do not distance my wishes which rebelled
Against fate by the hands of the delicate slim

33. To you, without you the distances would not have mingled with them
You see the dwellings in the darkness and innocence

34. O son of the Prophet, say unhidden words
And the best words about us are concise words

35. I saw your palm the refuge of every glory
When the people's palms joined in hardship

36. Your branch prospered and its boughs shook
In glory, truly the heights are the sweetest of trees

37. Not all the progeny of a blooming youth prosper
Sometimes the stick is anguished by leaves and fruit

38. Truly the spears, though their points are long
From hostility, stop short of you

39. The nights drag from you a sword of battle
That rouses death between the white and brown

40. The parade of opinion, if his tongues stumbled
Drags war between a summoner and encourager

41. So submit when the ridden throws off its rider
And time overpowers with foreordained destinies and others