شعرُ الظَريفِ ابنِ لكنَك

شعرُ الظَريفِ ابنِ لكنَك

مهذَّبٌ وَمُحَكَّك

مهذَّبٌ وَمُحَكَّك

The witty Ibn Laknak’s verse

The poetry of the witty Ibn Laknak

is refined and carefully polished,

is refined and polished,

مُذَهَّبٌ وَمُمَسَّك

مُذَهَّبٌ وَمُمَسَّك

بِمِثلِهِ يُتَمَسَّك

بِمِثلِهِ يُتَمَسَّك

gilded and perfumed with musk;

gilded and perfumed with musk;

to its like one holds fast.

to its like one holds fast.