1. You felt poetry so you brought the impossible
And you have not ceased your foolish talk
١. شعُرتَ فَجِئتَ بِعَين المُحال
وَما زِلتَ ذا خَطلِ في المَقالْ
2. When has one mighty in Homs been other than the mighty?
Or one disgraced other than the despised doer?
٢. مَتى عَزّ في حِمص غَيرُ العَزيز
أَو ذَلّ غَيرُ الذَميم الفَعالْ