لتعطِ الولاية من فضلها

فتى سلَّفَ المدحَ في العُطْلَهْ

Give authority to one whose excellence

Supplied praise in leisure though not recompensed,

فلم يؤتَ في المدحِ من جوده

ولم يؤتَ من سعة المهلَهْ

Whose generosity gave him no reward,

Whose ample time brought him no gift.

أتجعل شغلك غير امرئٍ

جعلتَ مدى عمره شغلَهْ

Would you busy yourself with other than one

Who made the span of his life your concern?

ومهما فعلتَ فأنكرته

فأنت أبا الصقر في الجملَهْ

Whatever you do, you deny him -

Yet you are, in the totality, Abul Saqr.