1. Welcome the most generous guest of his abode
If it is right for an abode to welcome its people

2. The president visited his old institute
Yearning for its dawn and preceding his arrival

3. The president was especially diligent in his efforts
Thus the president became generally blessed through them

4. O you who safeguard the covenant of affection, we
Also reciprocate what you have preserved with its like

5. You recall the old covenant as if it were
The milk of suckling, its recollection a child recalling its milk