1. عمرو بن مسعدة الكريم فعاله

    خير وأمجد من أبي عباد

    ʿAmr ibn Masʿadah, generous in his deeds,

    is better and more illustrious than Abū ʿAbbād:

  2. من لم يذمم والده ولم يكن

    بالري علج بطانة وحصاد

    one whose father was not reviled and was no

    foreign peasant at Rayy, making linings and reaping.

  3. وعرفت إذ علقت يدي بعنانه

    أني علقت عنان غير جواد

    And I knew, when my hand clung to his rein,

    that I had grasped the rein of no generous steed.

  4. وأصون عرضي بالسخاء وقد غدت

    غبر المحاجر شعثاً أولادي

    And I guard my honor through generosity, though

    my children have become dusty-eyed and disheveled.