ومهفهفand a slender one نسيforgot العهوthe pledges (first fragment)
ومهفهف نسي العهو
دfinal fragment of 'the pledges' وراحand went on يكذبhe lies بالمقالin speech
د وراح يكذب بالمقال
And a slender one forgot the pledges,
The ignoble forgot virtue
and went on lying in his speech.
And took to spinning tales
ويظنand he thinks انthat الكدبlying يمwipes away (first fragment)
ويظن ان الكدب يم
حوfinal fragment of 'wipes away' عنهfrom him ماwhat رقمinscribed اللياليthe nights
حو عنه ما رقم الليالي
And he thinks that lying wipes
Thinking that lies can wipe away
away from him what the nights have inscribed.
What nights have etched in his story
لوif انهthat he حفظhonored الذماthe covenant (first fragment)
لو انه حفظ الذما
مfinal fragment of 'the covenant' وصدand turned away عنfrom سوءevil الخيالthe imagination
م وصد عن سوء الخيال
Had he honored the covenant
Had he kept his dignity
and turned away from evil imaginings,
And stopped his wayward fantasies
سترhe concealed القبيحthe ugly وراحand went on مسveiled (first fragment)
ستر القبيح وراح مس
تورfinal fragment of 'veiled' الآواخرthe later things الاواليthe earlier things
تور الآواخر الاوالي
he would have hidden the ugly and gone on
Hiding shame and living up
with his later and earlier affairs veiled.
To his former nobility
لكنbut وضيعbase الطبعnature فيin
لكن وضيع الطبع في
قيدthe fetter العيوبthe faults عنfrom المعاليnoble heights
قيد العيوب عن المعالي
But one base by nature is
But base nature binds him
shackled by faults, kept from noble heights.
To vice and blinds him to all that is higher
Claude 2 is inferred from the historical translator configuration. The original record does not identify its model.