وَشاعِرٍ نِسبَتُهُ

وَشاعِرٍ نِسبَتُهُ

بِحيلَةٍ مِن حِيَلِة

بِحيلَةٍ مِن حِيَلِة

And a poet whose lineage

A poet whose lineage

rests on one of his ruses;

By a trick of trickery

تُذكِرُنا رُؤيَتُهُ

تُذكِرُنا رُؤيَتُهُ

مُتالِعاً في ثِقَلِة

مُتالِعاً في ثِقَلِة

the sight of him reminds us

Reminds us of seeing him

of Mutāliʿ in his heaviness.

Dazzling in gravity

آباؤُهُ مِن كَسبِهِ

آباؤُهُ مِن كَسبِهِ

وَخُفُّهُ مِن عَمَلِهِ

وَخُفُّهُ مِن عَمَلِهِ

His forefathers are of his own making,

His fathers from his livelihood

and his leather shoe is his own handiwork.

And his lightness from his work