1. The ruins of dwellings have come together and wept,
In Al-Qārah which I love or in Suqah of Ḥā'il.

2. It has become empty of all its inhabitants and replaces
The packs of Salīl after the horses and camels.

3. I remembered in it those whom I no longer care for,
Scattered lives in the resting places of the caravans.

4. And a man in Syria has more people
And the clan of Buṭnān, longing is not heedless of him.

5. Below Al-Ulā is a dog and the open plains of ʿĀmir
And below Al-Ulā are the open plains of Bakr bin Wā'il.

6. My camel flocks yearned for the land of Iraq
And the heat of the plains of Iraq is not ineffective.

7. So I said to her "Do not worry and wait patiently
For relief from God, He of recurring gifts".

8. Eat bitter plants after the inserted ones, and direct
Yourself to a guide, then make excuses after the guide.

9. The star clusters met the solitary one, a cloud
To the harbor of the Pleiades with chains.

10. Time has entrusted it until it made it take refuge
In a skin, little of its lower parts remaining.

11. So when the years slipped away from it, the claws swooped down on it
Of a pouring rain from an enemy with inquiries.

12. So it left of the truth only a small elevation
Of thick necks, smooth like hourglasses.

13. And a guest whose neighbors sufficed him while he entrusted
To it a piece of his secret, Umm Hā'il.

14. Na'ūs, when Darrah become animated, Ghada when she walks
Buwaizil of a year or Sudais like oxen.

15. When she calls white hair by the side of 'Unayzah,
Her toes in the water of Muzain and Bāqil.

16. She called with evident sickness which poured
Bracelets of veins in the breasts that yield milk.

17. When she was asked to mount the basin, she broke
The corners of the plateau, every wet and withering thing.

18. And if she heard the call of the watchman she uncovered
With the tails of foxes, mangy like disputants.

19. And if rain came from behind Tanūfah,
It guided guidance of far-traveling Sabbar.

20. And I and my remembrance, son of Harb, will return
To the tribe of the shepherd of loyalty, keeping ties.

21. Your father who was of greatest help to me with his aid
So he silenced after him every critic.

22. And you are a man, it is inevitable that you have inflicted me
With a promised debt upon you and soon due.

23. And Qais and the plains of Khindif knew
When I reached them at the resting places.

24. My praise of you, family of Harb, and whoever turns away
Other than you, I am rightly guided, not leaning.

25. The people of wisdom saw you as best successorship
Among the fourth in entering the assemblies.

26. And you made sufficient the affair of the two worlds, and none could
Make sufficient except a perfect one, son of the perfect.

27. We sacrificed for you every free soul
And calf of Mash'a in front of the riding camels.

28. Quarterings like the stance of ivory, bending its ropes,
Thoroughbreds whose goal is not fruitless.

29. Lofty of the edges of the carpets of his camping place,
The place of saliva's coagulation in the plaits.

30. So excellent your cheek and pouring hairlocks,
And excellent your sturdy neck and place of shoulder.

31. And a head like the ewer of a Jew, above it
Are plaits, their chiefs like fuel.

32. And from the rear two wings joined
Consecutive, no disconnecting and no neglecting.

33. And a reddish horse in a ostrich slipper,
Eight spirits, thirsty in joints.

34. When I say stubborn, he charges until you check him
With the strength of a man whose extremities are in chains.

35. Far from the driver when the mares of Suwa dance
In the anklets, leaning towards one another.

36. You see the greatest of heart whom their love softens
The wings of the lofty,wanton of the low.

37. Like one with stony ground whom Showmal made wet with its spit
Precipices in a portion of wind encompassing.

38. It drips upon the body of the hill and its body
Is spray which fell from a cloud without rain.

39. The daughters of the land spend the night beneath its moistness
In the most chaste of she-oryxes, lying inclined.

40. As if the train stirred in its resting place
A sack of musk in the litter of a caravan.

41. So when its night parted from its day,
It traveled in the twists and turns.

42. So it was roused when the dawn moved
By diverse mongrels and hounds.

43. It saw them until when they drew near
And the soul dislikes the first ones for it.

44. It protected its nose from some of the fleeing, so it repelled them
With a flash of lightning, unblemished and effective.

45. It separated the preceders with a stab
On a leg of Salhab, not reaching the target.

46. It was like a stallion who recalled what was past
When he performed the valorous deeds of the warrior.

47. It sways at the ends of the ropes and sniffs
At the farthest side, swaying of the wavering.

48. As a lote tree whose core a plunging Dellal entered
At the end of the night, pouring.