إنْ كُنْتُ فِي الْعُرْسِ ذَا قُصُورٍ

فَلاَ حُضُورَ وَلاَ دَخَالَه

If, where the wedding is concerned, I have fallen short,

with neither attendance nor participation,

يَنُوبُ نَظْمِي مَنَابَ كَبْشٍ

وَالنَّتْرُ عَنْ قُفَّةِ النِّخَالَه

my verse shall stand in place of a ram,

and my prose for a basket of bran.