Sol 5.6

  1. Your poetry, sweet in delicacy and grandeur,

    is more delightful than good cheer, sweeter than union.

  2. No need, then, for Ibn Abī Sulmā or Ibn Abī Rabīʿa

    when you cast verse in a smooth, effortless mold;

  3. and if you give poetry weight and grandeur, then it belongs

    to ʿAntara among the ʿAbs—or to ʿAlqama al-Faḥl.

Sol 5.6