1. I used to hear, but now I take as an example,
That nights deter the falcon with decayed ruins,

2. And that their hands were paralyzed and did not stretch out,
When they struck, they broke the spring in the waste,

3. Until I saw the ostriches that killed
The lion of the den, what a wonder for people,

4. As if the dome of deaths was roaring among them,
So they all died neighbors of the falcon,

5. Their rescue did not avail them when their day came,
It did not protect them from the violence of affliction,

6. Alas for the stranger whose lands are her lands,
She did not depart from them and did not live abroad,

7. She died a stranger, lone, in her soil,
And from her brothers and cousins and father,

8. She is the only one, and the relatives around her,
And she is the remote one in the closest place,

9. So when the memory of her smolders in the bosoms,
Sorrow said: By Allah O eye pour,