1. ما عاشق ألْوَط من قردِ

    قد صيغ شكلاً صيغة العقدِ

    No lover is more lustful than a monkey.

    Fashioned in shape like a knot,

  2. بما أبى ما تحته من نقا

    وفوقه من غصن القد

    because of what the sand dune beneath him refused,

    and the branch of his slender figure above him.

  3. في صيغة العقد ولكنه

    يلتف في خاصرة المرد

    In the shape of a knot, yet

    he coils around the waists of beardless youths.

  4. إن أنت لم تخرجه يا سيدي

    خريت بالمفعل من خد

    If you do not pull him away, my lord,

    I shall shit with the implement from a cheek.