1. My words are necklaces
That will remain as epochs pass away

2. The lucid mind adorned them with delicate,
Refined meanings and insights

3. So my poetry is seen by critics of verse
As easy in purpose, yet hard to attain

4. The abstruse meaning did not make it unsightly
Nor a difficult expression that hurts the ears

5. It has a place in the constellation of eloquence
A counterpart to the highest branches

6. To it aspire the narrators, in it lies
The Hijazi form and Iraqi courtesy

7. Giving hope, giving desire, near yet far
The friend of the settled, provision for the road