1. Deliver the message, O bird of the valley
And hasten with my words in song

2. Watch over the year of the guards and set forth
Among the thickets from Lebanon and wander

3. Perhaps a melody of affection from you, yearning
Will stir the compassion of Shakib, star of the assembly

4. He is the protector who revived with his speech
The traces of a people who excelled in speech with the emphatic d

5. You will meet him, the most noble of manners, seeking
And in Kariba, Amr and the son of Shaddad

6. A brother in affection and my pride that he is a lineage
Free of fraud and hatred in origin

7. He imparted to me the literature of eloquent speech
By whose merit people witnessed from settler and nomad

8. Sweet of canon law - if only the clouds had intended
The like of it, it would not have left a watercourse on earth

9. There crept into my heart from him an intoxication that
Captivated my hearing from the melody of the singer

10. O son of the generous - an enmity turned me from you
That almost barred my eyes with barricades

11. So excuse your brother - for had it not been for what transpired
In the arena of gratitude, the course of the excellent runner

12. And here it is, a gift from me, though small
For the pearl, though little, is the finery of the generous