1. I long for the dwelling where you once stayed
And mourn for the love that was familiar to you

2. Had your glance met the wars I have endured
You wouldn't know who among us would perish

3. We are destined by fate to suffer and so it cast
My tears and laments into bondage and freedom

4. O you who shun the company of friends, aloof
Yet were the noblest of companions and beloved

5. Though you recited words devoid of meaning
In praising you during lyrical chants

6. And compensated scattering tears for
Hearing precious words sung in verse

7. None remains for me to contend with in rhyme
Except doves in their weeping and cooing

8. None remains whose natural talent invites
To compose a versical house purposefully built

9. Who ponders poetic collections to deduce
Meanings, insights and benefits untold

10. We counted you unmatched in appraising them
Yet we are scorned by measures and numbers

11. Who dispatched messages whose words
Vanquished foes with the swords of orators

12. Who compiled each scattered piece
And corrected after changing and dispersing

13. To God - how many necklaces of words
Adorn ears and necks from their produce

14. Quenching from your pact, clouds of reverent spirits
Have passed, while harm from you stays unfulfilled

15. Wrath, if you reject asceticism or forbid evil
Pleases you through this or through abstinence

16. It is death, ever hunting
Our souls amid the seen and the unseen

17. Where are the early kings whose abodes
Rivaled oceans in might and domination?

18. Recording David's rule did not protect them
From death, nor the hosts of David's son

19. Alas! The shooting star of faith took you to live
Among pastures almost turning green

20. Had your loyalty not aided us providentially
Your children's loyalty would have fallen short

21. In every sense, I see your virtues manifest
So my regrets renew at every moment