كددتني أن سألتك الورقا

فكيف حالي إن قاسمتك الورقا

You've hurt me by asking for the paper

So how do I feel when you tear the paper?

يا كاتباً برزت كتابته

فصار فيها مقدماً لبقا

O writer whose writing stood out

He became foremost in it to survive

أسلم في مكتب المروءة وال

ظرف وكسب العلا فما حذقا

Submit in the office of manliness but don't

Show elegance and gain highness, for he has not mastered

حتى إذا أسلموه في مكتب ال

لؤم جرى كيف شاء وانطلقا

When they submit him in the office of

Meanness, he flows however he wants and runs away