نَعَيتَ الكِلابَ بِأَسمائِها

نَعَيتَ الكِلابَ بِأَسمائِها

إِلَينا وَلَم تَنعَ فيها أَباكا

إِلَينا وَلَم تَنعَ فيها أَباكا

You announced the dogs’ deaths by their names

You mourned the dogs by name

To us, yet did not announce your father’s among them.

To us, yet you did not mourn your father in them

فَقَد كانَ أَنذَلَها طِعمَةً

فَقَد كانَ أَنذَلَها طِعمَةً

وَأَهوَنَها حينَ ماتَت هَلاكا

وَأَهوَنَها حينَ ماتَت هَلاكا

For he was the basest of them in his feeding,

For he was the most ignoble prey to them

And, when they died, his death mattered least.

And the least grieved for when he perished, ruined