1. It grieves me to part from the rain's land
Yet what can I do after losing all hope of dawn

2. If bidding farewell is, according to my onlookers
Then your command to bid adieu stirs greater turmoil within me

3. It was not by my choice that I left with bounty
For my choice is to stay in poverty

4. So how could it be when I've bid adieu to my secret pride
That I find no replacement to guard my secret as well

5. A journey with no gains or hopes
No intention to return, no patience either

6. And after this, nothing follows
So from the day I traveled, I profess nothing but gratitude

7. Shall I gloat before my enemies, the foes of your glory too
That my father and I both share in loss?

8. So I remain, confined in a house too narrow for me
As the dead remain confined inside their graves

9. No! I shall not pain your eyes with my letters
For it is only right that I say to them, "Be still!"

10. Lest you see the clouds' veil and thus
The bright horizon be clouded ere the good news

11. It is only right to protect my letters, for
Like my face, they bear the traces of righteousness

12. And I await your gentle reproach
That time itself fails to attain in its lifelong course

13. May your happy days live long, and then, my God
If they end, add to them from my life

14. And grant them, after me, enough time
To fulfil their deeds at my grave, where my legend shall endure

15. And if they mention me kindly in prayer
Its lift is more useful to me than rain itself

16. And if they praise the days of my company in a word
That is nothing but a kind word from fate

17. Nor have I told the enemies that I have enchanted them
And this is my claim, and still, my spell does not provoke them

18. Nor that I dared to praise a sea with its poetry
And it roared, "Astounding! One who dared praise the sea with pearls!"

19. A lover who inflicted the enemies with themselves
So woe to them! Can my misery fulfill their ease?

20. And it was no secret to them that Egypt and its kingdom
Were too narrow for anyone but Egyptians

21. My misery with you necessitates the same from them
My misery cannot approve of their inflated prices

22. So do not combine deprivation from you and them
For the bestowed favor the old over the newly bestowed

23. I say we have parted and all my limbs
Are guests with no one, not one to settle

24. No sights delight my eyes or fill my hands
No bosom to unburden or back to rest upon

25. None to reproach my blame or share in my thanks
None to carry my worries or hear my excuse

26. None to promise me a day or fulfil a tomorrow
None to accomplish my yesterday or pity my patience

27. Delighted by the one I introduced with the delight of youth
And elated by the one I befriended with the elation of wine

28. You have remained through my words that will
Despite time's spite, remain through time

29. And through you I have armed myself against it
For in the battlegrounds of honor lies victory

30. Planets in this world lurk, ride high
Race, guide, while planets cannot race

31. My poetry has continued to travel
Praying your remembrance without shortening prayer

32. And it knows well that generosity invites gratitude
So it is exalted in subtle verse and prose

33. And of my debts, I have accustomed it, nay I found it
Naturally inclined to gratitude and honesty in gratitude