1. كأنَّ رقومَ الضربِ طيرٌ حوائمٌ

    أتتْ تستقي منه ورُودَ الجداولِ

    As though the stamped designs were hovering birds,

    That came to drink from it as they come to streams.

  2. ألستَ تراهُمْ قد أتاحوا لصيدها

    شباكاً فألقتها بكِفَّةِ حابلِ

    Do you not see how they have laid out, to catch those birds,

    Nets that cast them into a trapper’s snare?