سَمِعتُ لابنِ بُنيمانٍ وَبَغلتِهِ

عَجيبةً خِلتُها إِحدى قَصائَدهِ

I heard of Ibn Buniyan and his she-mule -

A story I made into one of my poems -

قالوا رَمَتهُ وداسَت بالنِّعالِ عَلى

قَفاهُ قُلتُ لَهُم ذا من عَوائِدهِ

They said she kicked him and stamped with her shoe

Upon his nape. I said: That's her custom!

لأَنِّهَا فَعَلت في حَقِّ والدِها

ما كانَ يَفعَلُهُ في حَقِّ والدِهِ

For she did to her father what he would do

In turn, to his own father!