ومهفهف نسي العهو

د وراح يكذب بالمقال

The ignoble forgot virtue

And took to spinning tales

ويظن ان الكدب يم

حو عنه ما رقم الليالي

Thinking that lies can wipe away

What nights have etched in his story

لو انه حفظ الذما

م وصد عن سوء الخيال

Had he kept his dignity

And stopped his wayward fantasies

ستر القبيح وراح مس

تور الآواخر الاوالي

Hiding shame and living up

To his former nobility

لكن وضيع الطبع في

قيد العيوب عن المعالي

But base nature binds him

To vice and blinds him to all that is higher