1. I became sad when youth departed
Would that those nights before had perished

2. Why do dwellings not respond, sorrowful?
Are they deaf or has time worn us out?

3. Desolate, their era passed into decay
So they lasted as months of years

4. You see the maidens begin to blame me
When they desire but my passion disobedient

5. The maidens were early with blame after
The motley throng made clear with collision

6. I became when youth was manifest, chance-taking
Would that those nights before had perished

7. Those who went forth with your heart left
And limping with your eye still aiding

8. They shed tears and said to me
What did you find of passion and we found?

9. The slanderers did make me stumble and they found
A confinement with your secret, O Umayma, grieving

10. I tasked the need of what I task concealed
Like the stern one in easiness, quitting

11. They went an evening going mentioned
Whether stirred stirred or guided guided

12. And they cast at them distracters expose of success
Whether extended extended or living lived

13. Jesus you task every dusty departing
Folding the hems with tiredness and gloomy

14. Until worn from the carrion and it returned them
The distance of horizons like the stern, yearning

15. The Ukhaydir begat women of Taghlib
They are the wicked with the wicked fed

16. That which forbade honor Taghlib
Made the prophecy and the caliphate among us

17. Do you possess from the sanctuaries a sanctuary
Or testify with the call, ears?

18. Mudar my father and father of kings so do you, Khazraj and Taghlib, have one like our father?
This is my cousin as caliph in Damascus

19. If I wished I'd lead you to me fettered