لقَدْ ساءَ العِدا وشَجا الحَسُودا

وأبْهَجْنَا تقلُّدُكَ البَرِيْدَا

Enmity has been provoked, and the envious have been enraged,

Yet your taking over command has delighted us.

هُوَ العملُ الذي أصبَحْتَ فيهِ

على العمّالِ كُلَّهِمُ شَهِيْدَا

It is the task wherein you have become

A witness over all the workers.

فمنهُمْ من تُغادِرُهُ ذَميماً

ومنهُمْ من تُغَادِرُهُ حَميدا

Among them is one whom you leave in infamy,

And another whom you leave in good repute,

نصائِحُ لم تزل بِجَمِيْلِ رأيٍ

بها وجَلِيْلِ قدْرٍ مُسْتَفِيْدَا

Counsels that have never ceased to be with fine opinion

By which much esteem and great benefit have been gained.

إذا ما الشاجِحَاتُ بها استُحِثَّتْ

طَوَتْ بالشِّدِّ والعَنَقِ البَعيْدَا

When the nobility are stirred by them

They sweep along with determination and distant vision.

تَرَى الأمْلاكَ مُصْغِيَةً إليها

إذا حَرَّكْنَ بالحلْق الخُدُودَا

You see the angels listening to them

When they rouse the cheeks' dimples.