1. Alas! What disasters fate has wrought,
Snatching from us a beloved friend.

2. Poetry died when Ibn Aws passed on;
No more is literary taste sensed, or talent found.

3. You were in a class of your own, o Ibn Aws!
While this generation is of lesser breeds.

4. If the terminator of pleasures cut you down,
In grieving for you, hearts are cut to pieces.