ظنناهُ الخليفةَ من أَبيهِ

فجاءَ مهجَّناً ضخمَ السِّبالِ

We thought him the successor of his father,

But he came hybridized with drooping mustache.

صريعاً بين مائِدِةٍ ودنٍ

وأَحراجٍ كأَشْدَاقِ الجِمَالِ

Lying dead between a table and a vat,

And forests like the chins of camels.