1. With smooth, eloquent verses, forceful rhetoric
Of free, finely honed phrase

2. Needing no license nor credentials
Since no one finds fault with them

3. And if critics examine them
They are to be reckoned pearls

4. I composed them on lineage and glory until
In them miracles were seen as my traits

5. And whenever praise slips from my tongue
It is the least nobility can proffer

6. So I borrow the meanings
From what panegyrists have said in the past