شكراً لأقلامك اللاتي جرتْ لمدى

في الفضلِ أضحى لباغي شأوه التَّعَبا

Thanks to your pens that have flowed for so long

In virtue, the oppressor’s prominence has faded

حلَت وأطربتِ المُصغِي وحزتُ بها

فضل السباق فسماها الورى قصبا

You have delighted the listener and saddened with them

The merit of precedence, so the world called it a reed