1. We left at Nashash some of the tribe of Bakr bin Wa'il
Where swords had been unsheathed and blades had flashed

2. And at the regular torrent-beds were men slain when
The wild beasts of prey spent the night there and prowled

3. So we said: At Nashash we have a brave band
High-minded: and we named it The Base and it recoiled

4. When the cowardly beasts take to flight from them
Prosperity grows in their thickets and they have halted