1. By your father's life, I will not find a cousin's son
Better than Baghdad upon the two meadows

2. Of less blame and more glorious victory
When you bring me troubling news

3. Like a robe and love for an ear of wheat
I grasp when my poems are disturbed

4. The morning the crimes of my tribe against me occurred
And how can my hands deal with difficult war

5. For Abu Humaid has blocked the way
As the son of Bayd blocked addressing me

6. If the easy roads of earth are denied me
Then I will take the paths of verse