ظَنَنتُ حَسِبتُ خِلتُ زَعَمتُ أَن قَد

وَجَدتُ وَما رَأَيتُ وَلا عَلِمنا

I thought, I supposed, I imagined, I claimed that I had

Found you, yet I did not see you, nor did we know

وَلَولا دَخلُ أَفعالِ التَعَدّي

عَلَيكَ مَعَ اِنخِفاضِكَ ما اِنتَصَبنا

And had verbs of transitivity not entered upon

You despite your lowness, we would not have stood up