قَالَتْ وَقَد هَاجَرْتُها

في الصَّوْمِ أُفِّ عَليكَ بَعْلا

She said, and she had spurned me,

“In fasting, treat me tenderly, my husband.”

كانتْ عليكَ وَظِيفَةٌ

صَيَّرْتَها في الصَّوْمِ بَقْلا

Yours was a duty,

You made it in fasting mere greens.

فَأَجبتُها ذاكَ المُدَلَّلُ

صَارَ مَنكُوساً مُدلّى

So I answered that spoiled one,

Who had become downcast and compliant,

وَعَهِدْتُهُ رُمْحاً أَش

قُّ بهِ الدُّروعَ فَصَارَ حَبْلا

“I knew him as a spear most sharp

That pierced armor, and he's become a rope.”