هذي المَحاسِنُ قد أُوتيتَها هَذِي

فكلُّ شخصٍ تعاطى شَأْوَها هاذِي

These beauties you've been endowed with

Thus all who've tasted of their charm are doting

أَقْسَمْتُ بالنَّحْلِ إِنَّ النحلَ قائلةٌ

مَاذِي الحلاوَةُ مِمَّا تُحْسِنُ الماذِي

I swear by bees, bees say

What sweetness can compare to thy sweet doing?

أَنْفَذِتَ شِعراً فَأَنْفَذْتَ القُوَى فَجَرى

شَكْوَى وشُكْرٌ لإِنفاذٍ وإِنْفَاذِ

You cast your verse and cast your line, and flowing

Comes love and thanks for casting and providing

وقُمْتَ لي في جفاءٍ من صِقِلِّيَةٍ

بلُطْفِ مِصْرَ عليه ظَرْفُ بغْداذِ

You rose when polished friends to me were cruel

With Egypt's grace on Baghdad's grace relying

إِنْ كان طبْعُكَ من ماءٍ ورقَّتِهِ

فإِنَّ ذاكَ فِرِنْدٌ بَيْنَ فولاذِ

If your nature is of water and its pliancy

Then that's sheer steel midst ordinary iron lying

وما وَهَمْتُ ففي التلميذِ مَعْرِفَتي

حقًّا لأَنَّكَ معروفٌ بأُسْتَاذي

If e'er I err 'tis but to show my pupil's mind

For you are known as teacher nones-surpassing

الله يَعْلَمُ لولا أَنتَ ما جُعِلَتْ

يَدِي على كَبِدٍ للبَيْنِ أَفْلاذِ

By God, but for you, my hands would never sunder

The flesh uniting loved-ones intertwining