1. I said to sadness and despair: be upright
No ambition draws worries

2. O you who sit back from it, make me sit
With you, for I am tired of standing

3. People hear good talk from me
Do they not see a miserable living?

4. And I see my state distorting what it writes
My ambition turns nights into stars

5. Then they said poetry built glory for him
And esteem circulated him in the land

6. And if I shone whenever I said a verse
Praising, I said - and let it be concealed

7. A shyness from all that went from me
Other than what was in the son of Ibrahim

8. Its glories did not disappear from him
So praise appears from them as landmarks

9. One with singing voice above praise, so if he
Gave to praisers, he gave generously

10. O you who claim the place of Abu Amr
Indeed, what you seek is difficult to attain

11. That one meets the injustice of nights, specifically
And meets their justice generally

12. And if you meet him, then learn
Perhaps the heights are taken through teaching

13. And if the fingers of fingers are turned
In a pasture, then patience and resignation

14. So it does not provoke talk the like of
From his enviers except silent

15. A manners from your father in you, father of Amr
And sometimes old talk accompanies the new

16. I am among those who went from you and my love
In those who stayed does not cease to stay