يُعرى هَواكَ إِلى أَسماءَ وَاِحتَظَرَت

يُعرى هَواكَ إِلى أَسماءَ وَاِحتَظَرَت

بِالنَأيِ وَالبُخلِ فيما كانَ قَد سَلَفا

بِالنَأيِ وَالبُخلِ فيما كانَ قَد سَلَفا

Your love for Asma is laid bare, though she has fenced herself off

Your love is stripped bare to the skies, while she

With distance and stinginess in days gone by.

Withdrew with aloofness and stinginess over what had passed

وَحَدَّثَ الدُهنَ وَالدِفلى خَبيرُكُمُ

وَحَدَّثَ الدُهنَ وَالدِفلى خَبيرُكُمُ

وَسالَ تَحتَكُمُ سَيلٌ فَما نَشِفا

وَسالَ تَحتَكُمُ سَيلٌ فَما نَشِفا

And your informant spoke of the oil and the oleander,

And your spy made the fat and lean well-informed

And a flood flowed beneath you and did not dry up.

And beneath you a torrent flowed, not yet dried up

وَالكَبشُ هرجٌ إِذا نَبَّ العَتودُ لَهُ

وَالكَبشُ هرجٌ إِذا نَبَّ العَتودُ لَهُ

زَوزى بِأَليَتِهِ لِلذُّلِّ وَاِعتَرَفا

زَوزى بِأَليَتِهِ لِلذُّلِّ وَاِعتَرَفا

The ram is frantic when the young he-goat bleats at him;

A ram is confused when the shepherd calls out to it,

He waggles his fat tail in submission and acknowledges it.

It bleats submissively with its voice, acknowledging

رَمٌّ رَغولٌ إِذا اِغبَرَّت مَوارِدُه

رَمٌّ رَغولٌ إِذا اِغبَرَّت مَوارِدُه

وَلا يَنامُ لَهُ جارٌ إِذا اِختَرَفا

وَلا يَنامُ لَهُ جارٌ إِذا اِختَرَفا

A glutton, a milk-sucker when his watering places grow dusty,

A slave weighted down when his resources run dry

And no neighbor of his sleeps when he gathers fruit.

And he has no neighbor who sleeps when destitute

قَد شاعَ في الناسِ فيما يُذكرانِ بِهِ

قَد شاعَ في الناسِ فيما يُذكرانِ بِهِ

وَهى الأَديمُ وَأَنَّ الحَوضَ قَد لُقِفا

وَهى الأَديمُ وَأَنَّ الحَوضَ قَد لُقِفا

Word has spread among the people concerning what those two are known for:

It has become well-known among people what they both

The hide has worn thin, and the basin has caved in.

Are talked about for - the leather bucket and the well found dry