1. She said, and she had spurned me,
“In fasting, treat me tenderly, my husband.”
١. قَالَتْ وَقَد هَاجَرْتُها
في الصَّوْمِ أُفِّ عَليكَ بَعْلا
2. Yours was a duty,
You made it in fasting mere greens.
٢. كانتْ عليكَ وَظِيفَةٌ
صَيَّرْتَها في الصَّوْمِ بَقْلا
3. So I answered that spoiled one,
Who had become downcast and compliant,
٣. فَأَجبتُها ذاكَ المُدَلَّلُ
صَارَ مَنكُوساً مُدلّى
4. “I knew him as a spear most sharp
That pierced armor, and he's become a rope.”
٤. وَعَهِدْتُهُ رُمْحاً أَش
قُّ بهِ الدُّروعَ فَصَارَ حَبْلا