1. My imaginations fall short of my worth
And the attributes of my virtues do not extend to my pride

2. I am but one whose glory, when it soars,
Becomes an eagle who accepts no nest but the eagle's

3. I mounted the summit of glory when I climbed it
With my good tidings and my righteousness

4. And my noble traits, blossoming favors
Flourishing lineage, and overflowing refinement

5. When the natural poet declaims his poetry
He spends on it nothing but my poetry

6. And my nobility through poetry, when I compose it
To shine over what is formed of pure gold

7. But through noble fathers, honorable and generous
Whose glories exceed the number of drops of rain

8. He who has my grandfather as his own, and my mother his
Sees himself of higher station than flowers

9. So neither Zayd nor Amr diminishes me, for I am
Of a rank higher than sun and moon

10. If I am beyond description in glory, then by right
I disdain rhyme and prose