1. أُغضي وَلَو أَنّي أَشاءُ كسوتُهُ

    جَرَباً وكنتُ لَه كشوكِ العرفَطِ

    I turn a blind eye, though if I wished, I would clothe him

    in mange, and be to him like the thorns of the ‘urfut tree.