1. Does he have any virtue over his peers?
And if he frowns, others prostrate unwillingly,
١. أَيري لَهُ فَضلٌ عَلى آيارِهِم
وَإِذا أَشَظَّ سَجَدنَ غَيرَ أَوابِ
2. As if the blackness of his head was a melon
Taken to a king across the Tigris as gift.
٢. وَكَأَنَّ هامَةَ رَأسِهِ بِطّيخَةٌ
حُمِلَت إِلى مَلِكٍ بِدَجلَةَ جابِ