1. ثَريدٌ كَأَنَّ السَمنَ في حَجَراتِهِ

    نُجومُ الثُرَيّا أَو عُيونُ الضَياوِنِ

    Tharid, as though the ghee in its hollows

    were the stars of the Pleiades or the eyes of tomcats.