1. Woe to the paralytic man, and sailors, and their folk,
When a gold coin makes the surface foam and darkness fall
١. وَيلٌ لِفِلجٍ وَالمِلاحِ وَأَهلِها
إِذا جابَ دينارٌ صَفاها وَفَرقَدُ
2. Two [men] whose beards had almost turned white with effort
And another was from the blackness of the city's core
٢. مِصَكّانِ قَد كادَت تَشيبُ لِحاهُما
وَآخَرُ مِن نوبِ المَدينَةِ أَسوَدُ
3. He passed like a ship’s master guiding its hull
Leaving the surface aflame from his battering strikes
٣. وَمَرَّ كَمُردِيِّ السَفينَةِ مَتنُهُ
يَظَلُّ الصَفا مِن ضَربِهِ يَتَوَقَّدُ