1. أقولَ لدَبَّابٍ على المردفي الدّجى

    تأخر عن الظبي الذي عزَّ جانبا

    I say to one who creeps upon beardless youths in the darkness:

    Keep back from the gazelle whose flank is unassailable.

  2. فقد بثَّ عبدُ الله جندَ انْتقامه

    على الليلِ حتَّى ما تدِبُّ عقاربه

    For Abd Allah has deployed the troops of his vengeance

    against the night, until its scorpions no longer creep.