أمَّا الذي بِي فإنِّي لا أُسَمِّيْهِ

لكنْ سَأُلْقِي رُمُوْزاً جَمَّةً فيْهِ

The one whom I desire, I do not name outright

Yet hints aplenty about him I shall cite

إذا أَرَدْتَ من الأعدادِ نِسْبَتَهُ

فَجَذْرُ أَوَّلِهِ عُشْرٌ لِثَانِيْهِ

If you seek his ratio in numbers to find

The square root of first is ten times the second in kind

وإن أضفت إلى ذي الجذر رابعة

رأيت ثالثة زهراً معانيه

And if to that root you add a fourth part seen

You will find as the third a meaning most keen

ونِصْفُهُ أَوْلِعَتْ أختُ الرَّشيد به

فقد تَبَيَّنَ ماضيهِ وباقيْهِ

And half of it was beloved by the Abbasid's sister renowned

So his past and future are clearly spelled out on this ground