1. سَمِعتُ لابنِ بُنيمانٍ وَبَغلتِهِ

    عَجيبةً خِلتُها إِحدى قَصائَدهِ

    Of Ibn Bunayman and his she-mule, I heard

    a strange tale I took for one of his poems.

  2. قالوا رَمَتهُ وداسَت بالنِّعالِ عَلى

    قَفاهُ قُلتُ لَهُم ذا من عَوائِدهِ

    They said, 'She threw him off and trampled with her horseshoes on

    the back of his neck.' I said to them, 'This is one of his habits,

  3. لأَنِّهَا فَعَلت في حَقِّ والدِها

    ما كانَ يَفعَلُهُ في حَقِّ والدِهِ

    for she did to her father

    what he used to do to his father.'