1. By my father and mother, he whose attributes
The breeze of the north breathed at dawn,
١. بأبي وأُمّي مَنْ شمائلُهُ
رِيحُ الشّمالِ تَنَفَّسَتْ سَحَرا
2. And when he mounted a pen, his fingers
Bewitched minds with it, and it was no sorcery.
٢. وإذا امتطى قَلَماً أنامِلُهُ
سحرَ العُقولَ بهِ وما سَحَرا