1. أَعِنّي بِرَأْيٍ صَائباتٍ سِهَامُهُ

    إذا أَخطأَ الأَغراضَ كُلُّ تَفوُّقِ

    Help me with counsel whose arrows strike true,

    when every shot misses the targets.

  2. فَما عَدِمَ التَّفوِيقَ مَن كانَ عَوْنُهُ

    على نَائباتِ الدَّهْرِ رَأْي مُوفَّقِ

    For none lacks the means to shoot whose aid

    against time’s calamities is the counsel of one guided aright.