1. ما بال ألأنفكَ هذا قد شمختَ بهِ

    إلى السمواتِ حتى جاوزَالقدرا

    Why have you raised this nose of yours so proudly

    to the heavens, until it has exceeded due measure?

  2. لولا خشيتُ إذا ما كنت رافعهُ

    من أجلِ واحدةٍ أن يقفأ الأخرى

    Were it not that I feared, whenever you raised it,

    that, on account of one eye, it might gouge out the other.