1. To you the pioneer of glory and destiny resorts
And from you the eminent borrowed the ornaments of pride

2. And your days, O young moon, looked upon the world
As the blossoms in the green gardens in their brightest robes

3. Clothe the servants of God in a garment of new bounty
That renews through it the newness of time

4. And live for building generosity and glory taking
From this and that the rising place of the sun and the moon

5. You rose in the brilliant morning with the most auspicious rising
So the plenty smiled in the time you smiled in poverty

6. Thus you both became a feast - this for the striving servant
And bounty - and this for the prayer and the sacrifice

7. My praise, when you attain it, precedes praise
And my gratitude, when you attain it, precedes gratitude

8. And I have not seen the like of poetry bring bounty
To one longing for it, especially my poetry