وَمَمْلُوكَةٍ لي كُلَّما رُمْتُ وَطْأَها

أُقَبِّلُها شَرْطاً عليَّ مُؤَكَّدا

And a slave girl I have, whenever I visit her

I kiss her as a duty binding upon me

وَلَمْ تُبْدِ لي ثَغْراً نَقِيّاً مُفَلَّجاً

فَأُعْذَرَ أَوْ خَدّاً أسِيلاً مُورَّدا

Yet she has not shown me a pure open mouth

So I could excuse it or a soft reddened cheek

وَلكِنْ رَدا ما اعتَدْتُ شَيئاً ألفتُهُ

وكُلُّ امْرِئٍ جَارٍ علَى مَا تَعَوَّدا

But she rejects what I have grown accustomed to

And everyone insists on what he is used to

فَوَجِهِي علَى وَجْهٍ لَها كُلَّ لَيْلةٍ

وَيَومٍ إذا جوا إنَّ ذا نَافِعِي غَدا

So my face is set towards a face she has each night

And day, when it comes, indeed that benefits me tomorrow

وَغَسْلِيَ لا من وَطْئِها بَلْ لِوَ طْبها

تَرَى كُلَّ يَوْمٍ ذاكَ مِنِّي مُجَدَّدا

And my washing is not from mounting her, but from her scent

You see that from me renewed each day

وََمَا يَعْدَمُ الوَاطِي لها منهُ حَمْلَها

وَإنْ كانَ حَمْلا لَيسَ يَعقُبُ مُولدا

And the rider does not lack from her his riding

Even if it is riding that does not result in birth

وَهَاهِيَ في عَشر الثمانينَ وَهْيَ لا

تَرُدُّ مَعَ الأَيمانِ مِن لامِسٍ يَدا

And here she is in her eighties, yet she does not refuse

The oaths of a toucher, his hand