1. You called your hair a eulogy, yet it was for
a dead man, so in truth we named it a dirge

2. He said: He was dead before that, and today
I brought him back to life, refined and adorned

3. O generous one whose treasure of knowledge has a store
laid up, and treasure demands safekeeping and fortifying

4. People give away monies we go astray with
While you give vision thus guiding us

5. This is the yield of a thought whetted like a sword’s edge
Thus it chose your finest attributes as our fragrance

6. The poets’ gift is poetry, it has not ceased
To gift it at times and at others be gifted the like