1. A yearning in my heart that does not cease
It blunts my hopes, though fasting I release

2. I swore by the brightness of wishes
A palm-cloud rains down desires released

3. When youthfulness in it flowed, it waved to her
And for her company Abu Fadl Ja'far stood

4. With a sword that from its sheath of water seems
And valleys where the dew of stars is wrung

5. The days of Majid did adorn the world
Through him the rule is graced and boasts are flung

6. A youth whose might makes troubles laugh and flee
In his saddle, a full moon and roaring lion sprung

7. For him hopes flocking to their goal aligned
And gathered by him thankful and bejeweled thronged

8. Abu Fadl, when I came to you with praise
I saw the faces of success and bounty flowered

9. And knew I was a diver in an abundant sea
Where generosity's waves foam and surge

10. Naught is surer than my hopes of your nobility
Naught lasts longer than a poetry emblazoned

11. No aid of swords succeeds a poem's victory
That at the caliphs' doors esteemed attendance has

12. When the villain turns his ear from it unhearing
It finds welcome audience with the noble and the just

13. At the kings' courts it has unsilenced drums
That of glory sing and are not stilled or oppressed

14. His hands grasped might and bounty and nobility
And gained distinction when ignorance wandered lost

15. So one who rules his own affairs does not neglect
To lead in generosity and defer what he has tossed

16. To you, untouched, brought as if a bride bedecked
In fractured jewelry and wedding garb embossed

17. She's brought to you O Banu Nasr as if
The bride of Chosroes when Caesar gave him host

18. Abu Fadl, poetry is such that refusal
Lets it die, while glory lives on and is engrossed