وابِأَبي أَلثَغَ لاجَجتُهُ

فَقالَ في غُنجٍ وَإِخناثِ

I complained to my father about my lisping,

May my father be ransom for a lisping lad whom I teased,

So he said angrily and harshly:

Who replied with coquetry and languid softness,

لَمّا رَأى مِنّي خِلافي لَهُ

كَم لَقِيَ الناثُ مِنَ الناثِ

When he saw my disobedience to him,

When he saw my contrariness toward him:

"How often the femaler meets the male!"

"How much have thoulth thuffered becauth of thoulth!"

نازَعتُهُ صَهباءَ كَرخِيَّةً

قَد حُلِبَت مِن كَرمِ حَرّاثِ

I disputed him violently

I shared with him a golden wine from Karkh,

Like a guttural letter at the start of speech.

That had been milked from the vines of a tiller,

إِبريقُنا مُنتَصِبٌ تارَةً

وَتارَةً مُبتَرِكٌ جاثِ

Our waterskin standing erect at times

Our pitcher standing erect at one moment,

And at others lying flat and slack.

And at another, bending down to kneel.