1. United by virtue, their fellowship was mended,
For virtue makes the best of comrades and allies.

2. They made cooperation and building their care,
And revived morals and ethics.

3. Verily they cure wounds with their righteousness,
And battle misery and despair.

4. They acclaim the new literature at times,
And build halls for the old at others.

5. Their care was stirred and their affection aroused
By an age that excites sympathy and pity.

6. Inactivity posed, lacking his brilliance,
A bond below the strides of youth and its vigor.

7. The warbling nightingale who shook the branches
And stirred the boughs and shuffled the leaves,

8. Left behind elegance in his ode and his glass,
Quenching with the soft drink of his pure love the enamored.

9. Though fettered in his steps and imagination,
He spanned countries and expanded horizons.

10. A precursor of the goals of rhetoric, he ran without
Feet, so imagine if he regained his footing!

11. If only the physician's art were to feed on his rhetoric,
Or if only it were to make palatable what he says.

12. He is too precious to be utilized
Except for the wing, fluttering and hovering.