1. ما مُسبِلٌ زَجَلُ البَعوضِ أَنيسُهُ

    يَرمي الجِراعَ أُثولَها وَأَراكَها

    No shaggy-maned lion, with the buzzing of mosquitoes for company,

    making for the sandy tracts, their tamarisks and their arak trees.