قلتُ إذ قيلَ جَوْهَرِيٌّ طريفٌ

لم يكن قطُّ ذلكم جوهريا

When they said that Jayhurī was refined

That was never my nature

إنما قيلَ جوهريٌّ لعبدٍ

نكحوهُ فلُقِّبَ الجَوْحَريا

Rather, ‘Jayhurī’ was said of a slave

Whom they married, so he was dubbed ‘al-Jayhurī’