1. When my legs faltered, I remembered she to whom they belong
So I called Lubna by name and implored

2. I implored her, whom if my soul obeyed me
I would abandon for love of her and pass away

3. Lubna readied her arrows for the hunt and fletched
And I fletched others like them and readied

4. So when she shot me, aiming at me with her arrow
And I missed her with the arrow when I shot

5. I left Lubna confused, as if I
Had been coupled to al-‘Uyuq, then plunged

6. Oh, would that I had died before parting with her
Could she return once chance had slipped away? Would that I had!

7. So I became, and my old age, like him whom
On the morrow of battle, the enemies had stricken and killed

8. But she stood up, harmed only lightly there
While her horseman lay dead beneath the horse litter

9. So if my passion for Lubna is leading me astray
Then, O Dharidh son of Hubab, surely you have led astray too

10. For you saw not in me what you had hoped
Nor did I possess Lubna or life itself

11. So accustom yourself to my death by your hand, for
It is as if, O Dharidh, you had taken my life