يَزيدُ يَزيدُ الخَير لَولا سَماحُه

لَعادَ الزَّمانُ وَهوَ أَربَدُ أَسفَعُ

Good increases good if not for his tolerance

Time would have returned, colder and balder

تَقَبَّلَ أَخلاقَ المُهَلَّبِ نَجدَةً

وَمَكرُمَةً وَالنَّجمُ مِن حَيث يَطلُعُ

He embraced the manners of the slaughtered nobly

And generously, and the star from where it rises