1. Oh, the wine was not frivolously poured,
Reproaching while the beloved benefits from blaming.

2. So I said to her: I am confident in your forbearance,
And anything other than your command is the commander.

3. And a ward whom wine had not known before us-
We made him drink until drunkenness became his shackle.

4. Then we stopped supplying him with wine, for we were not
Going to burden him with what pains the breast.

5. He stayed with me in comfort until he slept,
Until morning came with no blame from my family or wine.

6. Noblemen who call the generous man their brother
Even if he has no marital bond to connect them.

7. Life triumphs and bequeaths glory to Wael
Whose lineage has flowing tributaries.

8. Leave the leopard be! Do not denounce him slanderously
For the leopard has been good in what was between us.

9. We were as the two tribes were whenever
Hardships that had no helpers or camels befell them.

10. And we were, whenever fate brought about a calamity
The valleys of Bani Jusham al-Zahar held it back.

11. Did you not see Hammaam, the young knight of Taghlib
Whom the days contend with and time has constrained,

12. Who built between the two tribes of Wael with a feat
So glorious that Taghlib acknowledged its brother and Bakr submitted?

13. By the life of Umm Al-Arajam's father, it
Is unassailable, protected, avoiding weak points!

14. And if the caller to war roused it with grey hair,
Spears would clash and cauldrons bubble over from its sides.

15. It is an invincible, speechless she-camel, or a skilled doe
Whose guardians are the bright-eyed Zahir.

16. They on the day of Dhi Qar lined up and battled
The regiments of Chosroes after the live coals burned.

17. The fortress maidens with musk continued perfuming themselves
For them, and in their hands the wine was refined.