1. لو تداني الدهر وانقاد ولم

    ينزوي حد بيت من كل خطير

    If time drew near and yielded, without

    a house’s boundary drawing back from any peril;

  2. وعلى متن الأماني حملت

    متى أصبحت مع الفلك تسير

    And on the back of wishes you were borne—

    When did you come to travel with the celestial sphere?

  3. وأخاء الود عنه فصرت

    جنة الفردوس للملك أمير

    And the brotherhood of affection from him—so you became

    the Garden of Paradise, a prince for the king.

  4. لكم الفضل قبولا واعذروا

    لو جرى ما نمت إلا بسرير

    Yours is the kindness of accepting; and pardon me,

    Were it to happen, I would sleep only on a bed.