1. Should I be scolded for leaning on my staff,
So my enemies rejoice and my family grow weary of me?

2. Each evening I remain a prisoner at the bottom of the house
While the children tease me as I huddle like a scabby camel.

3. My sons, set up your traveling litters,
For death is better than this disgraceful life.

4. You'll never fully realize my ambition
Until you see the roots of Athl trees.

5. If my heart froze when the lands of enemies appeared,
I'd neither pass through nor settle.

6. When Malik said I was doomed for my terrible crimes,
I turned against my guards.

7. Perhaps my wandering the lands in rebellion
And cinching the saddles tightly

8. Will someday drive me to a raid
Defended against through disobedience and stinginess.

9. Few continue them and seek their opportunity
When I call out among horsemen and men on foot.

10. When we descend on an unprotected watering place,
We stir up a dust cloud in the hollows like palm fiber.

11. With a glance it scours the bare earth
While our resting places boil with activity.