1. If I call a poor man, I protect him
From people, shielding him from harm

2. To you, O Commander of the Faithful, her journey
Stirs the sand grouse at night while they are settled

3. Near every partridge, as if their chicks
Were all voiceless, though they had feathers

4. The migrant ostrich seemed as if her chicks
When they sensed danger, bowed down in worship

5. Taking refuge in an acacia from the sun above
As one in peril takes refuge in a helper

6. Oh, would that I knew what Ibn Aamer says
And what, I wonder, Sa'eed has to tell

7. O House of Allah's Caliphs, gently, gently,
The Merciful will make it be where He wills

8. When its Lord left the western pulpit empty
The Commander of the Faithful Yazeed appears

9. Upon the auspicious bird, by ancestry exalted
For every people a bird and sires of note

10. So you remain highest of men in glory, and throngs
Still come to you, delegations in a flood

11. The royal house still towers high above you
Buttresses erected for it, columns hewed

12. Cooking pots of Harb's son like rain tanks
And under them embers like hillsides subdued