1. مَشويّة الوزّ أغرتني بتألولي

    حتى عطفت بميموني وشملولي

    The roast goose enticed me with my “ta’lūl,”

    Until I turned aside with my “maymūn” and my “shamlūl.”

  2. تُحرّك النفس في الطجنون ساكنه

    مهما تمرّ بلا مزج وتحلو لي

    It stirs the soul while lying still in the “pot-oon,”

    However bitter it is unmixed, it tastes sweet to me.

  3. أنثاته زوجها الذكرور جلّلها

    إذ نالها شبه امرأة ورجلول

    Its female—her mate, the “male-oor,” mounted her,

    When he had her, like a woman and a “man-ool.”

  4. وإن تسوّده قام القوق بيّضها

    مهما روى عطشاً فيها بتسييل

    And if she blackens him, the qūq-bird rises and whitens her,

    Whenever he quenches a thirst within her by letting liquid flow.

  5. وفوق أبياضها مهما تمرقدت

    تمفقسها بلامي دون عقلول

    And whenever she lies down upon her white eggs,

    She hatches them with my “lām,” without “mind-ool.”

  6. تشخ في الماء فلا يغتاظ ما أسقعه

    في البرد يا ناس فما ذاك قولوا

    She pees in the water, yet it does not grow angry—how cold it is

    In the cold, O people—so what is that? Speak!