1. From your shelter does the gentle breeze implore
A beloved has come, gifted from a beloved

2. He surmounted the haughty soul and its languor
And the distance of the desolate wilderness

3. He lies to me, and I believe him in affection
Feigned intimacy is the habit of liars

4. The abode answers its questioner, making known
Of the living who departed, the respondents

5. They associated with loved ones, returning lonesome
When suddenly met by hoary hair

6. I say to my life as it hastens me
To old age, "Ruin me in it, and disappoint me!"

7. A difference of method after method
Yet I and differences in methods are not of accord

8. And her conversation in them was strange
Thus, her antiquity became truly strange

9. The singers blame my grey hair on me
But who can I be to enjoy what is blameworthy?

10. I experienced my youth and though it turned away
Praiseworthy, without my experience of old age's dignity

11. Is it not time for Taghlib's springtime to end
Of tremors within it and wars?

12. For each tribe are horses that come forth
To horses rehearsing riding

13. As was the habit of the sons of Mu'ammar when they visited
The sons of 'Amr at Musayyid amidst throngs

14. They confronted the sincere in reckoning until
They averted the loss of the weak against the cross

15. The openness of horses and heroes is richer
Than the crossbreeds and the adulterated mixtures

16. They would patch up the days of Sulaym
Upon those cups and wounds

17. When the wound was bandaged over corruption
The healer's negligence was evident

18. The pleasure of loss brought losses
And speech that revealed courtships

19. The pocket is torn, then comes a matter
In which tearing pockets is belittled

20. And a grave, after my days of Barqa'id
When it slaughters the horizon of the south

21. Its soil will forever sweep upon it
A pledge from the pouring of youthful blood

22. When a sky pours forth, then holds back
It curves with a generous downpour

23. And I have not seen for the Pleiades after our era
An ascent like that of Al-Musharrafiyyah's nearby

24. The arrows of loftiness are aimed over them
And the line of trembling knees disappeared

25. Like the date palms of Sumayhah, a hill ascended
Shielded by the winds atop a hill

26. Who then can hear the clamor of the two brothers and not be terrified
By a clash from their combat, wondrous

27. The struggle of Taghlib cast down upon Tharthar
Spate and meadows

28. A chieftain of a plot, and a wild pigeon
Whose return was to drink from the waters

29. When adversity came, they bore it
Upon the shoulders of the firmly mounted

30. When precedence is divided, no share amongst men
Is weighted over any share

31. Except that the elder is given excellence
As the excellence of a spear over spears

32. Is there anyone rational of the sons of 'Adiyy
To restore the wanderer of their forbearing wisdom?

33. I fear for them the passage of a pasture
From the fodder that they suspended, withering

34. And I know that their war is but caprice
Upon the inviter to it and the respondent

35. As the war prisoner of ‘Amr was led
To his demise, and the valley of Qadhib overflowed

36. And in the war of the clan, there are supporters
That shake the ancient glories, revered

37. Perhaps Abu Al-Mu'ammar recites them
In distant anxiety and a vast chest

38. How many necklaces has the night given
The gift of the perfumer within it

39. O Haytham son of ‘Abdullah, a claim
Of one praising advice or deterring

40. And none are called to what you are called to
Other than you, son of the honorable and the noble

41. Overlook your people's sins, for keeping
Sins when they arrive from sins

42. For the straight arrow is more beloved errant
To the archer than the arrow that hits

43. When you have attained victory for the clan of ‘Ubayd
To the sincerity of affection for the clan of Habib

44. You will have become the strongest of Taghlib
At the hands of the clan and their hearts