1. With auspicious omens and happy fortunes
You came to me, with exquisite kindness as promised

2. And I was revived, O Yahya, by her
My soul that pines, forgetting my devotion and friendship

3. Though I forget not, and left vacant a quarter of my heart
Save what was filled with passion and longing

4. No glance at a flower's lip could surpass
The purity and sincerity of my praise and affection

5. So I drew for her from the sea of my thoughts
Gems threaded on a necklace of pearls

6. And I would speak at length were it not
For the need for brevity in the Chapter of Praise