كأني إذا أنشا وأنشد شعره

لدى سمرات الحي ناقف حنظل

As if when I compose and recite his poetry

Before the nights' conversations, standing like Al-Hanthal

ويرمي ولا يدري فؤادي ومسمعي

بجلمود صخر حطه السيل من عل

And it throws, though my heart and hearing know it not

Against deaf rock where the torrent hurls it from on high