1. O poet, who did not feel his own fall,
You were not the first ambitious one to fail.

2. If you had known a noble father to aspire to,
You would not have claimed lowly lineage from Tala'far.

3. Lost son of the whore, roaming the land,
With the meanness of Qudhal and the stench of dung.

4. Your crudeness in poetry bears witness
That you are a billy-goat, even if you were aided by al-Buhturi's nature.

5. It would be sweet for fingers to slap him,
As if his meanness were made of sugar.