1. شُئِمتِ يا هِمَّةً عادَت شَآمِيَّةً

    مِن بَعدِ ما أوطِنَت عَصراً بِبَغداذِ

    May ill fortune be yours, O ambition turned Syrian again,

    after having been settled a while in Baghdad.

  2. وَلَستِ ذاتَ نَخيلٍ لا وَلا أُنُفٍ

    كَرمِيَّةٍ فَتَقولي شَفَّني داذي

    You have no date palms—no—nor fresh

    grape wine, that you should say, “Dādhi has wasted me.”