1. Inhabitants of a place I long to visit
Though journeying there is beyond my limit

2. Burdens still pursue me, binding my will
Like poisonous snakes, their grip shall not remit

3. My tears have flowed in streams upon my cheek
Like wandering pigeons lit yet taking flight

4. I made my turban ropes to draw up water
When leather buckets failed to yield their might

5. To quench the thirst of maids and veiled ladies
Whose travel wore them down in wretched plight

6. We mounted them, though emaciated they were
Till their ribs and bones came into sight

7. We flogged them down the rugged slopes
But still the wretched beasts held up the fight

8. The horseman gathered troops to face us
Thinking numbers could our valor blight

9. Khanifa's clan will shudder when they spy
Our flashing swords, lightning in the night

10. Banu Qushayr will cower and retreat
When faced against our arms in all their might

11.
Ja'dah and Harith, lions of the jungle

12. Will rend their foes in every fight
My clan, Banu Ka'b, is best in fray

13. When fortune's winds blow foul their flight

14. Elders steadfast as mountains, youths like desert wolves
Will never from the battlefield take flight

15. Relent, Muheyir, you are a slave
To Ka'b - obediently comply with their might

16. Khalil and Wamiq cared for them
Khalil has a suckling babe held tight

17. Mar'i, far from home, for that is where
One's homeland ever yearns to reunite