1. Look dear one, do you see some gazelles
That walked gloomily, below them vagueness

2. And above the beautiful camels maidens
Like virgins, white shirts, pleasant companions

3. And the house of chaste women who throw with their arms
I entered, in it was a flirtatious and sick one

4. So I lent her my love to reward her, for only
The hands of the righteous knock borrowings

5. And my heart longed after weakness and it provoked her
One day in Hejaz with longing and departure

6. So I said to her, "Don't be annoyed, a house
Will come to me from India, an unwelcome one."

7. The answers of the wilderness drew near to you, so make less
What the flock and the base have accustomed you to

8. When it passed through a land, it took
The reins in a hand, between them a cupper

9. And the she-camels raged and lagged behind with them
Bent, for them saddlebags and howdahs

10. And they were like flocks of wild doves provoked and their watering place
On a hot day was visited, a small river

11. And boys of truth, for whom I spread
My gown, and in the sun's heat howdahs

12. Am I not the most eloquent, whose west casts
Poems from it, some durable, some ephemeral?

13. I shut up then the mischief of spittle with its saliva
So it speaks after me, and speech is subdued

14. And how many disputing brothers did I leave, and he had
No argument when I said, "In which words craft?"

15. So I turned away from glory and gave a smooth-speared one
A sword with which the mischief of spittle rose up

16. I cut from you the pregnant she-camels with it, so they sprang up
Then you had after insult no rising up

17. I clad you in the permanent shame, a cladding
To which you submitted, and the heart from you is timid

18. You prayed to a lion whose den is not coveted
My father Ashbal, after the fighting, a biter

19. When he appeared, the lions shaded him obsequiously
So they are cautious of death from him, terrified

20. You see among cowardly Meowas he wallowed in the ashes
And one who desires life, hoping for survival