1. The memory of childhood and abodes of tranquility
Hastened my pigeons before their usual time

2. It is as though when cares multiplied within
Its open spaces, like the multiplying of blamers

3. So every cloud seemed to have wept with
My eyes for Urwah ibn Hizam

4. And how much did I spend the spittle of its clouds
In it, and how many reproaches did I spend

5. You used to jest freely about separation
And malign my character, out of wickedness and nakedness

6. It is not the domes upon the riders but rather
Life itself that has departed in peace

7. Would that He who created nuclei had made pebbles
To be the joints and bones of their hoofs and my joints and bones

8. Exchanging glances, we pour the water of our affairs
Wary of the spying in the sleeves

9. Our souls have departed and after them we lived
After they had dripped upon the feet

10. Had they been like our patience on the day of departure
They would have been unlike fetters

11. They left me no friend but sorrow
And the appendage of a ostrich like a stallion ostrich

12. The aloofness of the noble turned their backs
To none but you, upon me unlawfully

13. You are the stranger in an era whose people
Were born with their virtues incomplete

14. You have been excessive in bestowing gifts but have not ceased
To be a banner of benevolence and favor

15. You made each great one small and grew
As if you had counted the years of a boy

16. You have reveled in garments of praise though
Lack of praise is the end of oblivion

17. A fault upon you is seen bearing a sword amidst the fray
What can sword do against sword?

18. If one like you existed or exists
Then I am exonerated from Islam

19. A king whose days were adorned with his position
Until they boasted of him against the days

20. His image robbed the world of their dreams
Of his dream, so they are without dreams

21. And if you tested, his resolves would be exposed
To the unique annulment and conclusion

22. And if you asked his edifice about his achievements
He would not be content with fulfilling the bounds of the world

23. Wait! By God, what the thin worms have done
To Amr son of Hind and Dabba the dark camels

24. When the tongues gained mastery over them
They erred while they dragged in the rulings

25. You left them cleft amidst the houses as though
Their heads had become angry at their bodies

26. Stones of people over earth of blood
And white stars in a sky of darkness

27. The arm of each father so-and-so is a nickname
Whose companion then became father of the orphans

28. My pact with the battle of the emir and his horses
Subdued at Naqaa, refraining from subjugation

29. O sword of the state of Hashim, he who intends
To attain your gifts intends the impossible

30. May God pray upon you without farewell
And water the soil of your parents by the clouds

31. He clothed you in a garment of awe from Him
And showed you the face of your brother Al-Qamqam

32. Indeed, he threw himself into the abode of the enemy
In the onslaught of a maddened lion

33. A people whom the fates spied upon in you
And saw in you enduring patience in war

34. By God, if not for you, no man would have known
Generosity, or how to strike resolutely