يُدافِعُني مَهرانُ في نَقدِ دِرهَمٍ
كَأَنَّكَ في شَيءٍ كَبيرٍ تُدافِعُ
Mihran puts me off over the payment of a dirham,
as though you were stalling over some great matter.
فَكَيفَ وَقَد زُوِّجتَ خَوداً كَأَنَّها
إِذا ما مَشَت في الدارِ أَدماءُ ظالِعُ
How then, when you have already been married to a young woman who resembles
a limping pale she-camel whenever she walks about the house?
تَطيفُ بِها كَأَنَّما أَنتَ آزِمٌ
بِفَروَةِ كَبشٍ قُدَّ مِنهُ الأَكارِعُ
You circle around her as though you were biting
on the pelt of a ram whose trotters have been severed.
Sol 6.1