1. For whom has the abode become desolate with downpours
Remaining upon traces of those departed long ago

2. It laments in the morning, though I adorned it yesterday
And indeed I strayed with that, what a straying!

3. It is as if their camels set out early in the morning
A continuous caravan groaning with the loads

4. Have you seen, if my she-camel knelt in the dark night
And I set out from it, my limbs weak

5. Would my camels scratch their faces at me
Or strike their hooves at my situation?

6. And when I see the swords flash and lightning
They avail not ‘Amr and Umm of fighting

7. He ruled Khawarnaq, Sadir and subjugated it
What is between the donkeys of its people and their cattle

8. He descended on Ubly then went against them
How excellent the two warriors and lone knight

9. Until when the bats fluttered and the dawn broke
And they pushed each other in the fray, what a pushing!

10. Solomon prayed for peace between them
With a blue wild cow amidst the shadows