عساها تنجلى وخلاك ذمٌّ

وماءُ الوجه في الوجَناتِ جَمُّ

May it be unveiled and spare you blame

And the water of the face in the cheeks gathered

ولم يَجرِ السؤالُ على لسانى

ولا ندَّى يدى بحرٌ خِضمٌ

And the question did not run on my tongue

Nor did my hand touch a Flexible sea

سيحرُسنى التجمُّل من أناس

هُمُ عنّى بداء البُخْل صُمُّ

Vanity will protect me from people

Who are misers in the disease of stinginess, deaf

حمانى زادَهم بطنٌ خميصٌ

على الجُلَّى وعِرنينٌ أشَمُّ

Their belly's provision protected them

Over the bare and the intense stench

فقد سقَّيتُ بَرْدَ اليأسِ منهم

فؤادا من رجائهمُ يُحَمُّ

So I watered the cold of despair from them

A heart that burns from their hopes

وكيف أكلَّف المعروفَ قوما

سواءٌ عندهم مدحٌ وذمُّ

And how can I oblige kindness to a people

Praise and blame are equal to them

تُلاقِى المكرماتُ بهم هوانا

كما يلقَى بذى الرَّوِق الأجَمُّ

Kind deeds meet humiliation with them

As the most aromatic aloes wood meets the uncouth

إذا ضحِكوا الىَّ رأَوْه بِرًّا

أكلُّ البِرّ تقبيلٌ وضمَُّ

If they laugh at me they see it as righteousness

All righteousness is kissing and hugging to them

يرَوْنَ عقوقَ ما كنزَوا حراما

هل العَرَض المسومُ أبٌ وأُمُّ

They see the disobedience of what they hoarded as unlawful

Is the offered honor a father or a mother?

وكم من شيمةٍ دفراءَ فيهم

تفوح لو أنّ أخلاقاً تُشَمُّ

And how many repugnant traits in them

That would smell if manners could be smelled

ستأتيهم قوافٍ شارداتٌ

بأنساعِ المخازى لا تُزمُّ

Withered mouths will come to them

With types of disgrace that cannot be controlled

مقالٌ في النفوسِ له دبيبٌ

وبعض القول في الأعراض سُمُّ

A saying in the souls that has bustling

And some of the words in honors are poison

فإعرابُ الفَمِ المِنطبقِ فتحٌ

متى أضحى بناءُ الكفّ ضمُّ

So the pronunciation of the closed mouth is an opening

Whenever the structure of the palm becomes closed