1. We brought the horses from both sides of the couch
Leveling them, determined for news

2. Competing with the raven over us
Outcasts like locusts from the dust

3. We met them one morning disheveled
Horsemen and the tribes from Ghifar

4. I left the women of Saʿīda bin ʿAmr
Over it, mourning amidst the abode

5. I left the birds hovering over it
As women hovered over the vat

6. So I made them, at their best, boon companions
And fed them in time of scarcity of provisions