ومرماري الطبيب له غلام

كمثل البدر غطاه الكسوف

Al-Marmari the doctor has a boy

Like the full moon veiled by eclipse

طويل الجسم مضطرب هجين

ثقيل الروح أسفله خفيف

Tall of build, a stirring half-breed

Slow of spirit, his lower half swift

عفيف عفّ عنه الناس زهداً

ومن خذلانه علق عفيف

Chaste, though people shunned him in ascetism

And from his abandonment, chaste he remained

ترى زنّاره في الخصر يهوي

إلى الساقين ليس له رديف

You see his waist-sash slipping

To his legs, unmatched it flows

إذا ما رامه المضطرّ يوما

فأكثر جذره شيء طفيف

When the desperate man one day sought him

His family tree proved paltry