1. The swaying of the branch is but its owner's sway
And the submission of youth is but the will of its glory

2. It resembled the full moon but for its display
And the gazelle but for its glance and survey

3. None has seen fire kindle as my heart's fire
Except its flame and blaze in fury and ire

4. I love the most of Arabs, she who did implore
Her kin about him, or pitched her tent on his terrain

5. They submitted to him and obeyed his reign
Know they not she's of those who his love obtain?

6. Of beauty he's the wealthiest so that his lover said
Forsaken, Lord, ease his hardship instead

7. The lightning of Najd yearns for its bend
As the youngster yearns for lightning at day's end

8. Nature has composed of him an ode and verse
As drink composes his reason's scattered purse

9. To a bayt of poetry he repairs, should he feel
Bored of staying; by its lines he'd appeal

10. Who hasn't seen Beauty hasn't seen it smile
Under its garb and veil in style

11. Let pale complexion posing lofty pretend
For my heart is smitten by its dark amend

12. If Indian gazelle's musk is its scent
My gazelle's musk is the intoxicant draught I've spent

13. This is the king of all people's affection
Tell them to heed his rule and direction

14. And pledge to him allegiance and obey
For his beauty has assumed all pledges today

15. Let hearts hasten to my heart that yearns
For it's the home of all his love that burns

16. O heedless eyes awake, by God you never stirred
Except when asleep, towards his love just third

17. And break, eyelids, for never you cracked
Except after breaking, to his love you lacked

18. Naught are your glances but a drunken haze
Nor cracking lids but spilling tears in craze

19. You ruled my heart, lit and stoked its fire
To spread and grow, doubling its blaze and pyre

20. I mourn for my tears crowding without halt
As I mourned for my state when it shattered and failed

21. Are my eyes' fatigue but gazing astray?
My lids' strain but flowing tears at play?

22. I'm the strong, wise leader, my father's esteem
He's the world's noble guide, glory's supreme

23. When asked of his virtues that his fame spread
The full moon in the horizon by its repute is led

24. He whose smile makes frowning time laugh and grin
And the world beam and blossom in joy and chagrin

25. He's the greatest with utmost humility kept
That exalted his rank with glory adept

26. The heavens are naught but places where he stepped
The stars naught but maids in his service prepped

27. Whoe'er sits midst that cosmos centermost
Sun and moon are but greenery by his host

28. His ancestry, when he moved on, did see
World leadership was granted by his decree

29. No fault lies in his pouring generosity
Except its excess rains excessively

30. Those asking of him are at ease and peace
As if their mouths were his joy and reprise

31. They saw success as they saw his light appear
For nothing foretells success like his cheer

32. Had not his cheer slept, that dew would awake
To slumber from his breath that day does break

33. He revived dead glory, striving with all his might
To gather its pieces or raise its height

34. Glory cannot be gained but by his dignity
Favor cannot be grasped but his civility

35. All nobility is but his easement's yield
All merits but the lining of his field

36. When the sublime pen his fingers did ride
His wing appears almost before its side

37. God never graced a mortal with such charm
Except a secret lay in his soul to safeguard

38. My glory astonishes not, for my hand
Has built nothing except by his grace I stand

39. Let the gray hair cease its hopes in my locks
For I rest assured midst his guard and flocks

40. With him I rose and my state turned fresh and sound
And I frolicked in my life and hurled around

41. Happiest of men I met with no toil at all
Bliss's source at the start of my youth's call

42. Were I to slumber from his palms in bounty
I'd be sated, not denying his plenty