هاكها شينية ما مثلها

لأبي الشيص ولا المرقش

Here it is—an unmatched poem rhyming in shīn,

with no equal by Abū al-Shīṣ or al-Muraqqish.

هذبتها فكرة قد برقشت

حسنها في طرسها المرقّش

A thought refined it and adorned it with varied color;

its beauty lies upon its ornamented page.