كأنّ أباه حين واقع أمَّه

أتاها وفي إحليله كُوزُ بَلْغَمِ

As if when his father came upon his mother,

He brought in his lap a cup of wormwood -

فجاءت به قرداً قبيحاً مقبَّحاً

على ما به من قلَّة وتَبظْرُمِ

So she bore him an ugly, cursed ape

For the meanness and wretchedness in him.