1. أَبيني لَنا أَيُّها الواسِعَه

    أَعاصِيَةٌ أَنتِ أَم طائِعَه

    Speak plainly to us, O wide one:

    are you disobedient or obedient?

  2. فَقَد أَنكَرَ الناسُ ماقَد جَنَي

    تِ فَهَل أَنتِ في مِثلِها راجِعَه

    For the people have condemned what you have done;

    will you then return to the like of it?

  3. أَتاني لَها خَبَرٌ شائِعٌ

    كَوَحشَةِ أَخبارِكِ الشَائِعَه

    A widely circulating report about her reached me,

    as dreadful as the widely circulating reports of you.

  4. وَقُلتُ لِوَهبٍ وَلَم أَحتَشِم

    وَلَم تَمضِ لي كِلمَةٌ ضائِعَه

    And I spoke to Wahb without holding back,

    nor did a word of mine go to waste:

  5. أَيا وَهبُ لِم هَتَفَت بِالوَزي

    رِ لَعَلَّكَ بَيَّتَّها جائِعَه

    O Wahb, why did she call upon the minister?

    Perhaps you made her spend the night hungry.

  6. فَجاءَت تَظَلَّمُ مِن ظالِمٍ

    إِلى مُنصِفٍ أُذنُهُ سامِعَه

    So she came complaining of an oppressor

    to a just man whose ear was listening.

  7. أَمِ اِستَشرَطَتهُ فَخافَت بِأَن

    يَظُنُّ بِها أَنَّها واسِعَه

    Or did she ask him to bleed her, then fear that

    he would think her wide?

  8. فَأَبدَت لَهُ العِشقَ مُختالَةً

    وَأَبدَت لَهُ الضَرطَةَ الرائِعَه

    So she showed him her passion, strutting proudly,

    and let out before him a startling fart.