1. She was distressed lest it be said an ignoble captive,
Or a prisoner bound by his shackles clanking.

2. So she took rest in her who followed her,
A burning that kindles the thickets and provokes lament.

3. Her bosom fluttered over the distance when
She was sure that it was the all-encompassing affliction.

4. Then she said, consoling, though there be
No escape from calamity, yet it is endurable.

5. Verily some misfortunes are lighter than
Others, and ere weeping comes resignation.

6. Oh that hour in which the hearts between the ribs
Were roused to life, shaking like the bough that droops in the shade, weighted down.

7. Then she showed like the blackness its lightning
Rent, and from which the pouring cloud recoiled.

8. The Pleiades and a heap of sand bent
Between this and that in the garment sewn.

9. O daughter of the Nights, thy talents will not
Suffer dejection in the setting of his purpose.

10. A horse that watches matters yet they
Escape him neither in excess nor in neglect.

11. Its glitter is its sword when it is polished for the
Coward under the darkness, the smooth file.

12. With two noble swords Indian and quick
And hostile to the vicissitudes of Time the Evergreen.

13. Every day the enemies are divided from him
With a leap, their reins loosened.

14. Urge on the impetuous racer and soon
The impetuous shall be urged to speed.

15. Urge him on, excellent supporter in fright
For his dreams and excellent binder.

16. Urge him on, more bending, the completest
In intelligence and pliant in the neck.

17. Urge him on, for his starry lights a ray
And for the bit in his mouth a babble.

18. Urge him on, engaging him and stirring him
As the brave was engaged by the glorious feat.

19. Urge him on, in his face appears
A joy like what appears in the blade straight and polished.

20. Urge him on, as if when he listens intently
To every news report, his hearing is the highest.

21. Urge him on, soon he will sever a chord
Or meet his destined death allotted.

22. Before Oman gathered a shadow of abasement,
Its structures of misery outspread.

23. May God curse wherever he lingered and passed the night
A curse whose erection is solid.

24. Misguided the corrupt, then followed Musa
A curse filling the plains and encompassing.

25. Oh my people, indeed the slave Musa has rebelled
And the armed and powerful destroyer.

26. Uzzan attained a kingdom, which if
Patience saw, it would think it a myth.

27. The Azd swooped with the Hutuf to the Azd
And Musa is resigned, congratulated.

28. The slave drinks its pure wine while the
Azd’s share of it is the dregs and the problematically obtained.

29. So fate wandered never to return, and wander with it
An oblivion no eraser can erase.

30. So strive utterly or die nobly
The glamoring and the plotting do not avail.

31. To what, to what do we live, men of humiliation,
All of us bound by it, patterned?

32. Do you see the Azd apportioning humiliation among them
An outsider and a ruinous fabricator?

33. Then do you agree to that, O Azd, if you
Agree, neither plume nor pile of its arrows winged.

34. No - by the life to which I clung
In hope which despair cannot defy!

35. Let not my uprising delude you, gently,
My care is bound to the two noble steeds.

36. Verily these matters beyond the sphere of divine mercy
Run their course of ascent and descent.

37. Whether I show anger or am content, travel on!
By my life both my contentment and my anger;

38. All that was fated to be near,
And that which no buzzing of flies can hinder, I roar.

39. Companion, had the pillar of my patience slipped a handbreadth,
The handbreadth on the day the truth was shown would have slipped it!

40. The day I traversed the desert with the anklets
Crashing with the traveling company, and it was desolate.

41. Let not the enemies suppose my stand
Is where the pitiful watering-hole traps me.

42. Diverting my purpose not, nor does degradation until
I neglect revenge in my heart concealed.

43. Then I pretended - the people reckon I am
Among them a friend and relation and neighbor;

44. Patience and hope are unleashed against the people, soon
Unleashing them against it will unleash.