أَبْدَعْتَ فِي دِيوَانِ شِعْرِكْ

فَجَعَلْتَهُ مِرْآةَ عَصْرِكْ

You excelled in your book of poetry

Making it a mirror of your time

وََكَفى لِذَلِكَ مَا جَلاَ

لِلنّاسِ مِنْ مِرْآةِ عُمْرِكْ

And it was enough for that what appeared

To people from the mirror of your life

هَلْ أَمْرُ هَذَا النَّاسِ إِنْ

حَقَّقتَ إِلاَّ عَيْنُ أَمْرِكْ

Is the matter of these people, if

You realized it except the essence of your matter

تَتَشَاكَلُ النَّزَعَاتُ فِي

الدُّنْيَا وَيَخْتَلِفُ المُحَرِّكْ

Perspectives in the world conflict

And what moves them differs

وَمَعَ الإِجَادَةٍ جِدَّةٌ

إِنْ تَأْتِ مِنْ تَمْثِيلِ فِكْرِكْ

And with eloquence a renewal

If it comes from portraying your thought

يَا لُطْفَ مَا أَوْدَعْتَ فِي ال

أَلْفَاظِ مِنْ نفَثاتِ سِحْرِكْ

O gentleness of what you placed in

Words of the outpourings of your sorcery

وَكَشَفْتَ مِنْ تِلكَ المَعَا

نِي الغُرِّ فِي لَمِّاحِ دُرِّكْ

And you uncovered from those meanings

The secrets in the flashes of your pearls

كَمْ ضَاقَ بَحْرٌ لاَ يُحَدُّ

بِمَا احْتَوَتُهُ حُدُودُ بَحْرِكْ

How narrow is a sea that cannot be limited

By what your boundaries of your sea contained

أَدَبٌ هُوَ العُنْوَانُ فِي

المَأْثُورِ مِنْ آدَابِ دَهْرِكْ

Literature is the title in

The oral history of the morals of your time

آيَاتُ نَظْمِكَ أَحْكَمَتْ

تَفْصِيلَهَا آيَاتُ نَثْرِكْ

The verses of your prose perfected

Its detailed composition, the verses of your writing

عِشْ مَا تَشَاءُ مُوَفَّقاً

وَمُهَنَّأ بِخُلُود ذكرَكْ

Live as long as you wish successful

And congratulated for the eternity of your fame