1. وزادَ البردُ يَومين

    فقالَ الناسُ ما القصَّه

    And the cold grew worse for two days;

    so the people asked, “What is the story?”

  2. فقلنا أنشدونا شِع

    رَ مروانَ بن أبي حفصَه

    So we said: They recited to us the poe-

    -try of Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa—

  3. فتىً من شَهوةِ النيكِ

    بحلقومِ استهِ غُصَّه

    a youth who, from lust for fucking,

    has a choking lump in the throat of his arse.

  4. ولو يُرمى ببطيخٍ

    لوافى دبرَهُ رصَّه

    And even if he were pelted with watermelons,

    they would reach his arse in a tightly packed mass.