1. The eloquence of Ibn Faras
Is like his body, from thinness

2. He errs now and then
You find him stealing from thieves

3. Not wrongly stealing
Nor rightly picking locks

4. I was told he has women
Who are exclusive to him

5. Who hunt the prey of youth
Bravely with brazenness

6. He starved them so they devised
A trick to gain solitude

7. Until when she was tired
Each rode a small donkey

8. How many a languid eyelid
And smooth legged lass

9. Each girl would pick from him
The pick of suitors

10. She is satisfied with food in a
House of excess and loss

11. An excess of horns
On a head closely shaven

12. To a contractor accustomed
To her as his own

13. And I have not interpreted any
Insult in him except the stated

14. Nor have I recounted any story
About him unless abbreviated

15. The mind a tenth of a mind
And the person like a puppet

16. Why so stingy, wiping rod
Of the obstinate donkey

17. Your mind was not built
Like your well-formed body