يا بعيدا من غنى الن

نفس ولو ملكت عانَه

O you who are far from the rich now

A soul even if you owned its sigh

قلت لما أسند القو

ل فلان عن فلانه

I said when the saying attributed

To so-and-so from his so-and-so

ما يجي قط وزير

من جزير البند قانَه

Never comes a minister

From the island of snakes his column