1. O you who sleeps with eyelids closed, why does the eye slumber?
Speak of that, for in love there is no concealment,

2. Surely the nights and days of my love for you
Have tales and news of beauty and passion.

3. Each companion in love becomes intimate,
And each drinking partner becomes verdant in life.

4. The elite of life is an ocean, youth are ships,
And to revelry there are moorings and sailings.

5. O dwellers of Egypt, yearning has brought us together
After separation, and being together is fragmentary.

6. As if, after your absence, the era of youth
Became, because of frivolity, an era of tardiness.

7. A valiant man's heart fears not love's fire,
If in it lies solace for Abraham.

8. A reproach is seen by the hopeful suitor directly,
While generosity from another is merely a sign and wink.

9. A man of ambition, if the horizons journeyed for him,
Would have abundant wealth, untouched by measly gains.

10. Were it not for your brother and his noble deeds,
Naught would contain you but the wilderness.

11. Yet I replaced a cloud with its likeness,
Since in both this and that lies the water.

12. With that is refreshing shade and cool breezes,
And with this a clear spring and gusts of wind.

13. To you both I sent verses in praise,
With open areas of sublimity and firmament.

14. None were empowered by a rhyme,
Nor tread by sequencing and pacing.

15. For my poetry is unique, individuated verses,
While others' is rabble and clamor.

16. So an undistinguished piece of it cannot be compared
To a pearl - this is a cure, and the ignorant's words are sickness.

17. From me to you, greetings that have continued since dawn,
Their fragrance diffusing perfume in the universe.