1. Indeed, by my life, O son of al-Mughira, you have become

    a raider upon all the rhymes.

  2. Honor to you, O brother of Jadila! Your verses

    have turned Iraq's scorching summer into spring.

  3. Why do your eyes flirt whenever

    they see, among the heads, a bald head?

  4. Indeed, love of bald men reveals in a man

    something dreadful to those who lay things bare.

  5. You are not base in my eyes; rather, you, O scoundrel,

    are too base even to be base.

  6. Saturnian, he has found in ill fortune

    a companion, a comforter, and a bedfellow.

  7. Ill-fated, his ill luck makes deaf and blind

    to him a livelihood that goes forth seeing and hearing.

  8. From his words you get ingenious nonsense

    each day, whenever he attempts ornate rhetoric.

  9. He is forever satirizing and being beaten

    with a thousand floggings, or praising and being slapped.

Sol 6.1