1. إِنّي أُكاثِرُ أَعدائي مُغالَطَةً

    وَفي الحَشا لَهَبٌ مِن غَيظِمِم ضَرَمٌ

    Indeed, I vie with my enemies in numbers through deception.

    And in my breast a flame blazes from anger at them [uncertain reading].

  2. وَلَجَّ في العَذلِ أَقوامٌ مَقَتُّهُمُ

    كَأَنَّ في أُذُني عَن عَذلِهِم صَمَمُ

    And people I loathed persisted in reproach,

    as though my ear were deaf to their reproach.