1. شُوَيكَةُ قَصّابُكُم قَد أَغارَ

    عَلى غَنَمٍ لِيَ يَحتاشُها

    Shuwayka, your butcher, has raided

    my sheep, rounding them up.

  2. فَلا أَتَّمَت قَدَمي شَوكَةٌ

    وَهَيبَةُ وَجهِكَ مِنقاشُها

    So may no thorn wound my foot,

    while the awe of your face is its tweezers.

  3. فَغَر أَن يَبيتَ مُغيراً عَلى

    خِيارِ الرَعِيَّةِ أَوباشُها

    So be indignant at raids by night upon

    the best of the subjects by the rabble among them.

  4. فَلَو كانَ ذِئبُ غَضاً ما عَجَز

    تَ أَنَّكَ مِن فيهِ تَنتاشُها

    Even were he a wolf of the ghaḍā thickets, you would not fail

    to snatch them from his mouth.