عجَباً أيُبْدِعُني الخليفةُ يوسُفٌ

مَوْلَى المُلوكِ بمغْربٍ وبمَشْرِقِ

How amazing that Khalifah Yusuf inspires me

Master of kings in West and East

وأريهِ راحةَ مانِعٍ أو جَفْنَ مَنْ

هوَ نائِمٌ وفَمَ الذي لم ينْطِقِ

And I show him the comfort of an objector or eyelid of one

Who is asleep, and the mouth that did not speak