إن قال وفّى مسرعاً ما قالَه

وسواهُ لما قالَ لمّا يفْعَلِ

If he who pledged fulfills his word with haste

Unlike another who but said he soon would act

يا أيّها الحَبرُ الإمامُ ومَنْ غَدا

في منزلٍ ما مِثلُهُ من منزِلِ

O eminent scholar and guide of later days

Whose dwelling no abode can equal in its grace

خُذْها ابنةَ الفكرِ الذي استعملْتَهُ

فغدَتْ لعَمْري كالغزالِ الأكحلِ

Accept this daughter of the thoughts I have employed

Who now, I swear, is like a doe with darkling eyes

واسلَمْ ودُمْ ما غرّدَتْ ورْقاءُ في

غُصُنٍ رطيب في النعيم الأكملِ

And rest while still the chatter rises from the boughs

Of moist young branches in most perfect paradise