1. لما غدا سلطان حسنك في البها

    فردا وحاذر لحظ كل متيم

    When, in splendor, the sovereign of your beauty became

    Peerless, and feared the glance of every lovesick soul,

  2. نادى بعارضك البدار فجاءنا

    من جيش حسنك بالسواد الأعظم

    It called to your cheek-down, 'Make haste!'—so it came to us

    From your beauty's army, with the great black host.