1. The phantoms have come, though none have come to you,
From people of an age, and folk of narrow means, of harem.
١. وَافى الخَيَالُ ومَا وَافَاكَ مِنْ أَمَمِ
مِنْ أَهْلِ قَرْنٍ وأَهْلِ الضَّيْقِ مِنْ حَرِمِ
2. Last eve they came to Qarn; the twilight did not fade for them
Until they camped at Zawra, amid tents.
٢. أَمْسَى بِقَرْنٍ فَمَا اخْضَلَّ العِشَاءُ لَهُ
حَتَّى تَنَوَّرَ بالزَّوْرَاءِ مِنْ خِيَمِ