عيشُك غَضٌّ والزمانُ أغيدُ

وطرفُ حُسّادِك فيه أرمدُ

Your life is still young while time grows old,

And the eyes of your enviers in it grow bleary.

يا لابسَ النعماءِ هُنّيتَ بها

ملابساً كساكَهُنَّ أمجد

O you dressed in blessings, adorned with them

Are garments that their like makes magnificent.

أقبحُ شيءٍ أن تذُمَّ زمناً

حسبُك فيه حسناً محمد

The ugliest thing is to blame a time

In which, for you, good is Muhammad.

يا أعينَ الوُفّادِ قُرّي بفتىً

في مطلعِ العلياءِ منه فَرقد

O eyes of loving ones, get rest through a young man

In the first light of the highly placed, from it he set forth.

ذاك الذي كِلتا يديهِ لجّةٌ

يطيبُ للعافينَ منها المورد

That one whose two hands are both soft,

The healthy feel ease from them at the pond.

مباركُ الطلعةِ مرهوبُ الحِمى

في بُردَتيهِ قمرٌ وأسد

Blessed of feature, awe-inspiring in zeal,

In his furs are a moon and a lion.

موقَّرُ المجلسِ ذو ركانةٍ

حبوتُه على شمامٍ تُعقَد

Honored of assembly, of lofty position,

His charms upon a string are threaded.

بالفصل في صدرِ النديِّ ناطقٌ

كأنَّما لسانُه مُهنَّد

In the prime of spring, the spokesman of excellence,

It is as if his tongue is made smooth.

سقيطُ طَلٍّ لك من بيانه

أو لؤلؤٌ في سلكِه مُنضَّدِ

Descending, for you, from his eloquence, a snippet

Or a pearl in his prose embellished.

روضةُ فضلٍ يجتني رائدُها

زَهراً بطيبِ النشرِ عنه يَشهد

A garden of virtue whose keeper

Plucks from it, through the spreading of publishing, a flower that he witnesses.

يُنمى لقومٍ في الزمانِ خُلِقوا

جواهراً يُزانُ فيها الأبد

He brings out for a people created in time

Gems whose value therein the eternal measures.

هم خيرُ من رشَّحه لسؤددٍ

مجدٌ وأزكى من نماهُ مَحتِد

They are better than any he nominated for envy

Glory and more fragrant than any he angered.