1. شِعرُك يا ابنَ المُختارِ مُختارُ

    يكادُ حَبَّ القلوبِ يَمتارُ

    Your poetry, O son of al-Mukhtar, is choice.

    It all but gathers the hearts’ kernels as provisions.

  2. فِراسَتي فيكَ أنْ تسودَ وإنْ

    ذُيِّلَ دونَ الغُيوبِ أَسْتارُ

    My intuition about you is that you will attain eminence, even if

    veils are lowered before the unseen.