رأيت جمادات الثرى ونباته

وكل خسيس دب فوق أديم

I saw the inanimate things of the soil and its plants

And every lowly creature that crawls upon the earth

فلم أر أهلا للمهانة والأذى

كصدغ لئيم الدهر وابن لئيم

Yet I saw none as worthy of humiliation and harm

As the vile cheek of time and the son of the vile one