1. I asked the dew, "Are you not free?" It said, "No,
Do not think I am less than free and glorious.

2. I have great favor over all people,
Yet I am a slave to Yahya ibn Khalid.

3. I said, "By purchase?" It said, "No, but by inheritance
From generosity, from their nobility, from their praise."

4. So I am but his slave, the son of his slave,
Inheriting from father to father endlessly.