1. The fox saw the raven on a branch of a flowering tree,
In a verdant garden, bearing a piece of cheese, as white as silver,

2. The best you can choose and most delicious that thieving birds of the air pick,
He desired it and said: If it's not meant for me, foxes will deny me,

3. Oh power of cunning, lift me up if you don't bring down the cheese from the sky,
Then he started flattering and setting up traps, though flattery itself is a trap,

4. Saying: Oh leader, you call at every dawn and eve,
Give us, with your knowledge, O protector, who are you among the long-necked birds?

5. Ravens, God bless you, we believe in the ravens, the people of highest rank,
Teach the nightingales who are less skilled than you in art, O Excellence!

6. And sing the praises of the one who endowed you with what he did not endow the papermakers,
Words the fool listened to, so pride overcame him,

7. And he sang on, unaware of the trap of the most eloquent poet,
He saw the delicious cheese falling, so he cried and wailed,

8. The thief received the spoils and took leave right away, bored with the singing,
Saying: Bravo deceptive singer, sing for others, it's time for my lunch,

9. O fox, be off, no congratulations on the ill-gotten gains,
O stupid bird, learn the reward of the foolish and ignorant,

10. Abu Al-Husain, you have not exceeded the children of Eve in cunning,
Some of us set up traps to catch lofty, well-built palaces,

11. When he raises his hand to the sky, it pulls down the stars,
Some of us constantly chase each other, seizing and looting shamelessly,

12. So seek refuge from them and beware, do not be counted among them!