مازال كل فتى يجي

دُ الشعر يدعى أحمدا

Every young man still comes

Calling poetry Ahmad

حتى انتصرت له فكن

تَ به علينا سيدا

Until you triumphed over him, so be

With him over us a master

فامدد الينا تغننا

عن ذلة الشكوى يدا

So extend to us, let us sing

Of the humiliation of complaining, a hand

لو لم تُخِفْ بسوى القري

ض عدى الحمى لكفى العدى

If you didn't scare anyone but hostility

In addition to fever, hostility would suffice