إذا أجادَ الذي يُشبِّهُهُ

وأحكَم الوصفَ فيه بالنَّعْتِ

If he who makes the simile is skillful

And apt in weaving praiseful lines of verse,

قال كُرَاتُ الأديم قد حُشِيَتْ

بسِمْسِمٍ قُمِّعَتْ بكَيْمَخْتِ

He'll say, 'These globes of leather have been stuffed

With flakes of steel all burnished by the forge.'