1. I rise early with a drink that soothes
Before the ground shows any dew

2. With us, a skin of wine to Sumaymah's place
That waters the eaters of ripe and tender dates

3. So we camped in an empty barren valley
Touched by the trailing robes of night and sprinkling

4. And we have a listening she-camel
Huge of hips without emaciation

5. And lo we have a bounding doe
And an ostrich whose thread is like the Abyssinians'

6. So we carried our possessions that befit us
Above a herd of noble horses

7. Then we said: below you is the hunt that will allow
The beloved among us to settle and live

8. So he brought us a lively fawn
And a mother ostrich with it

9. We satisfied ourselves with good hot meat
Unforbidden and cut up with daggers