أزِرْ صلةً قدَّمْتَها أَخَوَاتِها

وإلا فأطلِقْها تَزُرْ أَخَوَاتِها

Bear the tie you offered to her sisters,

Or release it to burden her sisters,

ولا تحْسِبَنِّي راضِياً منك بالتي

تَسَخّطَ قبلي معشرٌ أمَّهاتِها

And do not think me satisfied with her

Whom a group of mothers were angry with before me,

ولم أحْتَقِرْ ما كان مِنْك وإنهُ

لكُثْرٌ إذا عَدَّتْ رجالٌ صِلاتِها

And I did not despise what was from you, though

It is much when men count their ties,

ولكنّهُ في جنبِ جودِك تافهٌ

وفي عين حُرٍّ أبْعَدَتْ غَلَواتِها

But it is trivial in your generosity’s side,

And in a free man’s eye, its passions are remote,

أتعطي سوايَ الأمهاتِ من اللُّهى

وَتَخْتصُّني منها بصغرى بناتِها

Do you give the distractions of life to others besides me

And restrict me to the least of its daughters?

أبَتْ لي قبولَ الخسف نفسٌ أبيَّةٌ

تبيعُ بعزِّ الموتِ ذلَّ حياتِها

A soul refusing humiliation has refused for me

To accept abasement and sell the honor of its life for the disgrace of death