1. O spring whose purity no turbulence can disturb
Nor can any cloudiness blemish its clarity

2. O cloud of dew, if you scent its lightning
You would not blink until the rain drenched you

3. And an orchard that did not thrive and grow
Except that its shade and fruit became sweet

4. What can the eulogist possibly achieve with his praise
Of the son of she who is sun and he who is moon

5. You have raised Abu Hassân to such lofty glory
Dazzling, beyond the perception of sight

6. Were it not for my noble forebears, by whom I claim ties
You would be nobler than he to whom Mudar trace ancestry

7. So his gratitude to you lasts as long as his lifetime
And gratitude cannot end until life itself ends