1. وَما الثَلجُ في كانونَ يَهمي رَبابُهُ

    مُلِثّاً عَلى هَضبَي سَنيرٍ وَلُبنانِ

    And the snow in Kanun, pouring from its clouds,

    ceaselessly upon the two heights of Senir and Lebanon,

  2. بِأَبرَدَ مِن شِعرٍ رَكيكٍ تَلوكُهُ

    كَلَوكِ الخَرا فَكَّيكَ يا اِبنَ المُذيتاني

    is no colder than the feeble verse you chew,

    as your jaws chew shit, O son of al-Mudhaytani.

  3. قَريضٌ يَسُدُّ الناسُ مِنهُ أُنوفَهُم

    كَأَنَّكَ في تَكتيلِهِ بِنتُ وَردانِ

    Verse that makes people hold their noses—

    as though, in shaping it into lumps, you were a cockroach.