1. O wood-gatherer, as it is said, and perhaps
The innocent is accused of the greatest slander

2. Does the wood-gatherer lead armies marked
With banners like the neck of a vulture?

3. And you lead your wedding to the adulterers marked
With horns, confessing to all disgrace

4. O Lord of guests who made their villages
To be invested but not of the invested

5. She entertains them with tolerant feet
Forgetting reproaches, ignoring all blame

6. If only you had learned when you saw my seasons
Alas, your head was weighed down by the horns

7. And I have seen groups of men
Whose heads were heavy without crowns

8. How safe did I believe the barefoot to be when I left him
Not shaded in life with the shade of safety

9. I accompanied him night and day
In fear that disturbs the twisting of the mustache

10. I made him fear, picturing myself to him
In images present in every place

11. When they said you satirized him, I said in wonder
When did Khaled find time to satirize me?

12. I did not think that in his concerns
And worries there was any time left over from the rats

13. Until his satire came to me at sunset
And I knew that to him I was of some significance

14. How you have proposed to me, striving
Until, when your tongue was exhausted, you proposed mine