1. Kubaysha regained her sense after you left,
And her madness for being away became wisdom.

2. She took to the highlands, then spent the summer
At al-Buttah, while the flowing streams irrigated al-Musayyil.

3. She roams between al-Rijam and Wasit
To the lotus tree of al-Rassayn, where the gazelles graze.

4. The pigeons coo over it every dawn
Over the terebinth the mornings and twilights echo.

5. I assigned her a worry as though its localization
Were flax flowers that frequent the waters.

6. So I let her compete with its reins in it,
Rivaling the edges of the thickets' entanglements.

7. Sheltering like an emigrant's cloak containing
Thickets wherein the mares rear their tails.

8. She frequented it when its old compact with her companion
Had deteriorated, as vinegar does the spices.

9. I stole with her the estrangement from her sheep's homes
And shepherded its herd at night while spending the night.

10. With an enclosure he perceived her, except for a portion
Whose poles under the tent pegs bend.

11. So that panels appear in her bosom
When she returns to her burrows and nests.

12. I left it frightened as though its beasts
Were thieves deterred from undertakings and attempts.

13. As though my sturdy she-camel atop a saddle
Bolts toward the watering places, hindered.

14. The downpour's disaster shepherded it until it spent the summer
At the Euphrates banks, residing in thickets.

15. For it the cool of late spring and its clouds
Became a mixture that tomorrow's noon sun takes away.

16. So when summer released the water of its reservoir,
And the haze had removed the camel hair tents' pegs,

17. And it remembered of its days' remainder
Naught of the basin and drinking troughs except traces,

18. It harbored a deep sleep and the confines of a shelter,
Above which the tent ropes dangle.

19. The gentle breeze disappeared from its back's plains
So it straightened its course like a caravan.

20. Its imagination turns affairs' edges
With another part of the night standing crooked.

21. So after the calm it provoked her and she yielded,
And engendered a cleft like a mist's opening.

22. The deaf tin resounds beneath its shadows
With a thud - neither hollow nor fading.

23. He lodged in a land of secrets and witchcraft
And an inky darkness, fearing no entanglements.

24. Two years it endured the destroyer's madness
And encountered the grim faces of the troops.

25. They hastened to its vulnerabilities so it was as though
For their sharp teeth it conceded a tusk.

26. It left them slain at every army's heels
You see the distance in their necks like caravans.

27. They chose from a ghoul an ample torment
And from a white-blazed camel the carriers of litters.

28. We provided against separation in exile a need,
And a longing as though longing could be just.

29. Like the need one day before it from them
When at night they repelled with the dogs the beautiful camels.

30. They were delighted as though the she-camels called from the meadow
Were its meadows and the pregnant ones who bear.

31. Bearing Shafib-branded she-camels when they took upon themselves
And the branding spurs goaded the pregnant camels along,

32. Bearing Musayyib-branded and Manchurian she-camels when they took upon themselves
A lineage and lofty camels with abundant burdens,

33. As though they were she-camels by a bard's melodies
Charmed while the drinking companion leads gently.

34. Does and young she-camels, their necks compliant
With the yoke, even if their necks were not long.

35. Chaste young brides over whom is diffidence
And noble helpers wearing garments.

36. As though perfectly ripened fruits mixed in her talk
Sweet and dried from the exquisite sealed wine of Babylon

37. Which is poured over it from the radiance of lightning
That in the depth of night travels asking.

38. Their livers white like goose eggs when they straighten their necks
And their joints.

39. They have anklets of Raqi and agate
On the oaths of Persian caretakers who make fair judgments.

40. When they are brought out one day for their Lord
You would hear from an ecstatic musician a wailing song.

41. So if an abode becomes remote or a kinsman's time grows long
With consequences or old age becomes inclusive,

42. Then we might pasture one morning, and we are not neighbors
To the kings' realm, the coinage and the wash houses.

43. Nights beneath the tent walls, a summer residence
Of leather, frequents the midwives' huts.

44. The rheum of tender glances slept, its coverlets cheap,
In Suwaylim, from Duhayshah, the quarrelsome.

45. The range of vision from it to keep an eye on with vigilance
Is like the measure for the brave of what the struggling endures.

46. So she returned to visit between us and was altered
And said, "Enough - old age is lethal for a man."

47. She blames destruction without being misguided
And do I possess what I held back, if I were stingy?

48. I saw piety and praise as the best commerce -
Profit, when a man becomes heavy

49. And is it not but what he built in his life
When they hurl over the tomb dirt and spades

50. And praise him for what he had
As the fingernails bite into him.

51. So leave off this - it has passed away
Andbusy the deliverer of worries if you travel

52. Requesting the hospitality of a journey laid bare after exhaustion
A spring and summer in the resting places complete

53. So I rewarded her for what was laid bare and became eternal
For she would compete with the beautiful camels.

54. It turned like the bending of the sword, its blade gleaming
Over every brave one who splits skulls.

55. So it turned away my basin, heedless of its roses,
Inclining in the gardens of reeds, covered in mange.

56. With that I console a need, if I attain it
And relieve a worry that was inside my chest

57. I repay and grant this guide his judgment
If he is worthy of honor and connection

58. And if I bring it to him I shall divert it if I fear betrayal
And restrain the fist of stinginess if he is stingy.

59. The clan of 'Amir are the best of tribes I knew
Even if enemies falsely spoke lies and falsehood

60. For them are endless councils of dew
Nor does the ignorance of the ignorant harm them

61. Whites over the fires in times of chill
Nights of supper, deterring the mischievous

62. They established rights, made them hereditary
Bones of effort and fasting in abundance

63. Their north wind distributes its bones
When Najd drives away the mirages.

64. Nobles, if the caravans come it is delightful
Vats - they do not desire in wine a defect

65. If they drink, they deter intrigues from themselves
For of old they would silence intrigues

66. So do not ask us and ask about our afflictions
Iyad, Kalb, Ma'add, and Qays

67. And Tamim whom Kinadah toured
And when the settlements came upon you

68. In them, for our accounts, are affliction and bounty
And our endeavor for glory was not neglectful

69. They are my people, if you meet their elite
You will find them practicing glory and nobility

70. They will never lack in war a seasoned lion
Or one equal when disaster strikes, ready to sacrifice

71. And a fluent one who dons his armor for the fray
An orator, when the throngs gather, judicious

72. And one we trained without his bridle
Who walks in the township restrained

73. And Mashi'ala, a she-camel made for racing, as though her steeds
Are pigeons competing at dusk with the lowly

74. They have a loftiness wherein the iron is dense
You see the distance in their necks and their litter panniers

75. We struck the people's elites until they hastily went
With bundles while the young camels carried the burdens

76. We fulfill glory for the neighbor and we were raised
In action, and we defeat the disputant adversary

77. We have an exemplary Sunnah we follow
And it legislated loyalty for our descendants

78. Something that a people desiring to destroy it
Vacillate - extensive treason vacillating

79. We were patient with them in every significant day
With our swords until we surmounted the inheritances

80. And if you ask about them in every raid
Then perhaps the reports will inform one who asks

81. They are my people, if you inquire about their tents
Then the news will inform the ignorant one