شِعري أَنّى هَرَبتَ في الطَلَبِ

وَلَو صَعِدتَ السَماءَ في سَبَبِ

My poetry, where did you flee in seeking

Even if you ascended to the sky for a reason

يا اِبنَ أَبي عاصِمٍ وَلا عاصِمٌ

وَيلُكَ مِن سَطوَتي وَمِن غَضَبي

O son of Abi Aasim, and no Aasim

Woe to you from my might and from my anger

لَو كُنتَ مِن غُرَّةِ المَوالي إِذَن

لَم تَنثُ سوءًا في غُرَّةِ العَرَبِ

If you were from the honorable clients, then

You would not have spoken ill in the honor of the Arabs

أَيُّ كَريمٍ يَرضى بِشَتمِ بَني

عَبدِ الكَريمِ الجِحاجِحِ النُجُبِ

What honorable man would accept the insult of his

Servants of the Benevolent, the noble tribes

أَيُّ مُنادٍ إِلى النَدى وَإِلى الهَي

جاءِ ناداهُمُ فَلَم يُجَبِ

What caller to bounty and life

Called them, but was not answered

أَيُّ فَتىً مِنهُمُ أَشاحَ فَلَم

يُصَب غَداةَ الوَغى وَلَم يُصِبِ

What gallant lad among them turned away

And did not spill blood the next day of turmoil, and was not spilled

أَيُّ وَليدٍ رَأى سُيوفَهُمُ

في الحَربِ مَشهورَةً فَلَم يَشِبِ

What Waleed saw their swords

Prominent in war, but did not grow up

إِن رُمتَ تَصديقَ ذاكَ يا أَعوَرُ الد

دَجالُ فَاِلحَظهُمُ وَلا تَذُبِ

If you intend to believe the claim of that

Squinting fraud, then observe them and do not doubt

لَن يَهدِمَ الناسُ ما بَقوا أَبَداً

ما قَد بَنوهُ مِن ذَلِكَ الحَسَبِ

The people will never destroy what remains

Of that lineage they built

أُلاكَ زُهرُ النُجومِ لَيسَ كَمَن

أَمسى دَعِيّاً في الشِعرِ وَالنَسَبِ

Your demise is not like one who

In the evening became a pretender in poetry and ancestry