1. I asked but the inscriptions did not speak to me
So I remained as if sickened by them

2. At the striking of the bell, that figure
Walking to the slender palm, not staying there

3. The abodes of the sweet spring are a bosom
None like them comfort people

4. So either you turned away, without hatred
Or sorrows would afflict me

5. The war of a people prevented me from visiting you
Hot as hellfire, raging

6. Raging, the enemies recoil from it
As if their warriors are terrified by it

7. I cannot command peace in it
But I am the captain of myself

8. We killed the survivor for understanding
And the best seeker desires the bloody shirt

9. With an attack like the pouncing of a wolf until
My companion takes vengeance, staying

10. My companion takes vengeance or they kill me
A valiant martyr, forgiving, generous

11. And when the banners of Turj appeared
And the monks said the bells appeared

12. And the black mountains shunned me
And Kheynaf on my left and the beast

13. I strode the path with the clacking of sandals
And did not swear lest vows entrap me

14. And I climbed a lookout whose far limit
The handsome youth cannot reach

15. I climbed its ridge and descended from it
To another, too narrow to be filthy

16. My camel did not fall short there but
Collapsed like a wild animal tearing meat

17. From the lynx's back, its mouth appears
When it pounces on something, biting

18. And on a cold night I traveled
Burning the skin of my legs with fuel

19. So in the morning my toes appeared
As if their structure is a flabby nose

20. You see them blackened by the soil
Like the toes are shoots

21. With a leg I wrapped them round a leg
Pouring on them like scattered embers

22. Striking the warrior heroes among them
The surrounding stab and the piercing blow

23. Like the rustling of palm trees in a storm
Whose branches are lashed by poisonous winds

24. And I returned death to the heroes among them
When the brown spears mixed, I did not waver

25. And a melee as if the people among them
The skins of their faces are scalded by hell

26. I prayed its heat and men avoided it
Who cannot be tied by amulets

27. When fright forgets modesty they shouted
Oh, the beloved companion remaining