وَشاطِرٍ صَكَّهُ تَطَيُّرُهُ

ما عاشَ مِن كَفِّ راجِلِ الوالي

A crafty one whose hammering showed his flightiness

He lived not by the command of the governor's man

لَم تَرَهُ قَد عَينُ شارِعِهِ

يُطفِئُ فيهِ سِراجَ بَقّالِ

You did not see him, his street's spy

Extinguishing in it the lamp of the grocer