May my father be the ransom of the boughs swaying to and…

May my father be the ransom of the boughs swaying to and fro as they bend, bending their tresses towards the cheeks!
Loosing plaited locks of hair; soft in their joints and bends;
Trailing skirts of haughtiness; clad in embroidered garments of beauty;
Which from modesty grudge to bestow their loveliness; which give old heirlooms and new gifts;
Which charm by their laughing and smiling mouths; whose lips are sweet to kiss;
Whose bare limbs are dainty; which have swelling breasts and offer choice presents;
Luring ears and souls, when they converse, by their wondrous witchery;
Covering their faces for shame, taking captive thereby the devout and fearing heart;
Displaying teeth like pearls, healing with their saliva one who is feeble and wasted;
Darting from their eyes glances which pierce a heart experienced in the wars and used to combat;
Making rise from their bosoms new moons which suffer no eclipse on becoming full;
Causing tears to flow as from rain-clouds, causing sighs to be heard like the crash of thunder.
O my two comrades, may my life-blood be the ransom of a slender girl who bestowed on me favours and bounties!
She established the harmony of union, for she is our principle of harmony: she is both Arab and foreign; she makes the gnostic forget.
Whenever she gazes, she draws against thee trenchant swords, and her front teeth show to thee a dazzling levin.
O my comrades, halt beside the guarded pasture of Ḥájir! Halt, halt, O my comrades,
That I may ask where their camels have turned, for I have plunged into places of destruction and death,
And scenes known to me and unknown, with a swift camel which complains of her worn hoofs and of deserts and wildernesses,
A camel whose flanks are lean and whose rapid journeying caused her to lose her strength and the fat of her hump,
Until I brought her to a halt in the sandy tract of Ḥájir and saw she-camels followed by young ones at al-Uthayl.
They were led by a moon of awful mien, and I clasped him to my ribs for fear that he should depart,
A moon that appeared in the circumambulation, and while he circumambulated me I was not circumambulating anyone except him.
He was effacing his footprints with the train of his robe, so that thou wouldst be bewildered even if thou wert the guide tracing out his track.