ورب جبّان كبدر الدجى

نعشقه وهو لنا يقلى

By the Lord, a coward like the murky night

We love him yet he scorns us

واعجباً منه كريم غدا

يجمع بين الجبن والبخل

How strange that he seems generous one day

Yet combines cowardice and stinginess