1. Your life, O poetry, is between us
By the right of psalms of significance

2. For in every age there is a miracle for it
And in everything it is pivotal

3. You are in everything a language
Of the magic of rhetoric and the cup of wine

4. And you are in every nation
Suhail of progress and fame

5. It is upon poetry to translate from
Your side swimming in the seas

6. And here I am fulfilling my duty
Accompanying Al-Shadhili the treasurer

7. And I was given the honor that day
So said the historian on the day of pride