صُرِفَتْ صَرْفاً سِوى مِدَحٍ

مَلأَتْهَا عَذْبَة الكَلِمِ

It was turned aside from any praise

Filled with the sweetness of speech

ولَقَدْ أهْدَتْ جَنَى شَجرٍ

فِي عُبوسِ المَحْلِ مُبْتَسِمِ

And it has offered the harvest of a tree

Smiling in the gloom of place

لأخٍ أَشْهَى علَى كَبِدِي

ذِكْرُهُ مِنْ سَلْسَلٍ شَبِمِ

For a brother, whose memory

Is dearer to my heart than a smooth necklace

منْ زُهَيْرٍ في الإجَادَةِ أَوْ

فِي فِنَاءِ الجُودِ مِنْ هَرِمِ

From Zuhair in eloquence or

In the perfection of generosity, from Harim

راحَت الآدابُ حِينَ غَدَتْ

عِنْدَهُ مَوْصُولَةَ الرَّحِمِ

The virtues have found rest when they have come

To be, through him, bound in kinship