کاین همه فقر و جفا ما می‌‌کشیم ** جمله عالم در خوشی ما ناخوشیم‌‌

“We are suffering all this poverty and hardship: all the world are (living) in happiness, we (alone) are unhappy.

نان‌‌مان نی نان خورشمان درد و رشک ** کوزه‌‌مان نه آبمان از دیده اشک‌‌

We have no bread, our (only) condiment is anguish and envy: we have no jug, our (only) water is the tears (that flow) from our eyes.

جامه‌‌ی ما روز تاب آفتاب ** شب نهالین و لحاف از ماهتاب‌‌ 2255

Our garment by day is the burning sunshine; at night our bed and coverlet is (made) of the moonbeams.

قرص مه را قرص نان پنداشته ** دست سوی آسمان برداشته‌‌

We fancy the disk of the moon is a disk (round cake) of bread and lift up our hands towards the sky.

ننگ درویشان ز درویشی ما ** روز شب از روزی اندیشی ما

The (poorest of the) poor feel shame at our poverty: day is turned to night (darkened) by our anxiety about our daily portion (of food).

خویش و بیگانه شده از ما رمان ** بر مثال سامری از مردمان‌‌

Kinsfolk and strangers have come to flee from us in like fashion as Sámirí from men.

گر بخواهم از کسی یک مشت نسک ** مر مرا گوید خمش کن مرگ و جسک‌‌

If I beg a handful of lentils from some one, he says to me, ‘Be silent, O death and plague!’

مر عرب را فخر غزو است و عطا ** در عرب تو همچو اندر خط خطا 2260

The Arabs take pride in fighting and giving: thou amongst the Arabs art like a fault in writing.”

چه غزا ما بی‌‌غزا خود کشته‌‌ایم ** ما به تیغ فقر بی‌‌سر گشته‌‌ایم‌‌

What fighting (can we do)? We are killed without fighting, we have been beheaded by the sword of want.

چه عطا ما بر گدایی می‌‌تنیم ** مر مگس را در هوا رگ می‌‌زنیم‌‌

What gifts (can we make)? We are continually in beggary, we are slitting the vein of (slaughtering) the gnat in the air.