وَأَجوِبَةٌ كَالزاعِبِيَّةِ وَخزُها

وَأَجوِبَةٌ كَالزاعِبِيَّةِ وَخزُها

يُبادِهُها شَيخُ العِراقَينِ أَمرَدا

يُبادِهُها شَيخُ العِراقَينِ أَمرَدا

And replies that pierce like Zāʿibī spears—

With answers like the lightning and their stingingness

the elder of the two Iraqs delivers them offhand to a beardless youth.

Would destroy them the elder of the two Iraqs with enduring might