1. O king of beauty, what else besides you
Has fate kept for me in secluded valleys?

2. However ugly my reproachers are
You have possessed a beauty beyond all mankind

3. They have turned against you after devotion
Though once you were ahead of all people

4. So our beauty was eclipsed in its prime
And your vigorous youth began to fail

5. As the moon is eclipsed in its halo
And the breast of the lofty one is pierced by spears

6. The fair-cheeked ladies have become more beautiful
With hair elegantly braided at their temples

7. Like Marwan's spots
Whose blackness is concealed by their brightness