دع الشّعراء في مدح وذمّ

دع الشّعراء في مدح وذمّ

لجلب الرّزق تضربُ في البلاد

لجلب الرّزق تضربُ في البلاد

Leave the poets to their praise and censure;

Leave the poets to their praise and blame;

To procure their livelihood, they range through the lands.

To earn their livelihood, they roam the lands.

فهم مثلُ الضّفادع أين حلّوا

فهم مثلُ الضّفادع أين حلّوا

ألم تر أنّهم في كلّ واد

ألم تر أنّهم في كلّ واد

For they are like frogs wherever they alight—

For they are like frogs wherever they settle;

Have you not seen that they are in every valley?

Have you not seen that they are in every valley?