قد قال صبياني وهم تسعة
عاشر صبياني صغير فطيم
Indeed, my boys, nine in number, said—
The tenth of my boys is a little weanling—
من شهوة البسر وافلاسهم
ما فعلت نخلة عبدالرحيم
Out of craving for unripe dates and their pennilessness:
"What has become of Abd al-Rahim’s date palm?"
يا ليتها ان هو لم يهدما
عوّدناه اصبحت كالصريم
Oh, may it—if he does not give what
he has accustomed us to—become like a harvested garden!
Sol 6.1