1. أَيا شيعَةَ إِسماعي

    لَ إِنَّ الصَبرَ قَد عيلا

    O followers of Ismai—

    —l, patience has indeed been exhausted.

  2. كَذاكَ الدَهرُ وَالأَيّا

    مُ يَفعَلنَ الأَفاعيلا

    Thus do time and the day—

    —s work their mischief.

  3. أَرى الأَمصارَ لا تَملِ

    كُ لِلحافِرِ تَنعيلا

    I see the cities cannot pro—

    —vide shoeing for a hoof.

  4. وَقَد غَيَّرَ مَعناها

    أَذىً يَأتي أَراعيلا

    And their meaning has been changed

    by harm that comes in troops,

  5. كَما جُزِّئَ بَيتُ الشِع

    رِ تَقطيعاً وَتَفعيلا

    just as a line of poe—

    —try is divided through scansion and division into metrical feet.