1. She spoke without intending to meet me
Wait, for you have made my ears hear

2. I denied it when I suspected it
And war is a painful monster

3. Whoever provokes war will find its taste
Bitter, and it imprisons with shackles

4. It has targeted my head, so I do not
Feast my eyes except with wakefulness

5. I strive to gather the clan of Malik
Each man busy with his own affairs

6. I prepared for the enemies their due
Spacious as the prohibition in the wasteland

7. I provoke it away from me with ornamented
Swords that cut like salt

8. The sword of truth and its sharp edge are honest
And the brown polished spearhead

9. The resolve and strength of a daring man
Are better than dressing, dice, and drumming

10. There is no foal like the foals, and no
Pasture among the tribes like the shepherd

11. We do not regret killing and repay with it the
Enemies, measure for measure

12. We defend ourselves with a barricade
With parapets and a fence

13. As if they were a lion at cubs
Whimpering in anguish and tree trunks

14. Until it cleared for us, and we had a purpose
Among a group that was not a group

15. Why did you not ask the horses when they recoiled
What was my slowing down and my hurrying

16. Shall I spend money on loving them
And respond to the caller's call?

17. And strike the battle drum on the day of battle
With a sword whose range my arm did not shorten

18. And cut through the torn garment, fearing harm
Upon bloodless bodies

19. Of beautiful enclosures
That I lodged with my slave girl and grants

20. She is given to the safe and rescued from the
Blow of protected, unbetrayedCommunities

21. As if the edges of its loops
Were in a pleat, tottering

22. I adorn the saddle with an amulet
Of a sandy Arabian or a granted one

23. I fulfill my needs with it, for the youth
Is mortgaged to a deceitful colored one