1. The youths of the clan of Bekr ibn Wael
Were defeated by the onslaught of Issaad

2. Leading their herds away were some young men
Who turned them from the house of the defenseless old man

3. As if she had never been blessed with a milch camel
Nor mounted by throngs of pilgrims

4. So vehement were the others that it was as if
When the camels bellowed it was a departing caravan

5. Had you been of us we would have responded in kind
But the lonely ones are the lowest of the low