وجوهٌ لا يُحَمِّرُها عِتابٌ

جديرٌ أنْ تُصَفَّرَ بالصَّغارِ

Faces that scolding does not make blush,

Worthy of being yellowed by jaundice.

فما دانَ اللِّئامُ لغير بأسٍ

ولا لانَ الحديدُ بغيرِ نارِ

Yet the base never shrank from anything but might,

Nor did iron soften save in fire’s glow.