1. My rope has worn out from twisting,
Has the rain stopped today or is its absence prolonged?

2. And I have certainly wandered the district after sleep
As its dogs bark and awaken me,

3. With a well-groomed, smooth trunk,
Its mourning women wailing over it.

4. Smooth, adorned with a soft tether,
Its cheek soft, its side graceful.

5. In an unmarried one, and elite, honorable
Month, its affliction will not make me unmarried.

6. The wind has descended upon it as it would
Descend to a hated king his storm cloud.

7. And I have certainly lingered in the present
Until, when its wolves swarmed, it dripped honey.

8. And Sagga, who used to prevent
Some of the aspirations of its climbing, listened.

9. I walked the walk of fear,
Feigning its boldness.

10. And there a gazelle, the lovely eyed,
Its saliva pleasing to me.

11. Beauty, adorned with its jewelry,
And the throat most fragrant are its garments.

12. Radiant, delighted by its visit,
And the palm beautified by its dye.

13. I would cross it by swimming even if
Its forest were flooded.

14. And even if between meeting it
Were a slippery mountain its precipices.

15. I would look from where surmounting,
And the best of its roads is its pass.

16. I would come to it though the lover
Is obligated, base, his clothes dirty.

17. And even if between meeting it
Were a sticky marsh its pits.

18. I would come to it with the sword walking,
Neither deviating nor fearing its horror.

19. And I have a cousin whose poetry
Still has no maturity though its stirrups aged,

20. It raced and roamed and for an hour
Its clouds drizzled.

21. Why does he whose advice
I used to guard, his absence makes me angry?

22. He throws the scorpions of his words
When he sees I fear him.

23. O you who sees Remman empty,
Ruined, with its doors broken.

24. The foxes have become its people
After those who were its destination.

25. From Sogha judged, and from
A king for whom its reward was counted.

26. The horses leaped upon it after Aksum
Until its doors were destroyed.

27. You see it razed, its heights
And it is leveled with its soil swept.

28. And I saw it in prosperity
Its side green.

29. Then it became empty and none of enduring
Youth lasts forever its youth.

30. But do you see lightning in the
Two mountains pleasing to me its hastening?

31. From falling edges having
A pouring its clouds watered.

32. Like an ostrich suspended
When a monkey, its friend, approached.

33. And I have witnessed the shameless merchant
His drink forbidden.

34. With the bowl, tray, and
Jug, its garments covering them.

35. So if the people ask him to settle accounts
His reckoning does not bother me.

36. With imperfect weights the cheat
Followed by the one whose fang split.

37. And I witnessed the army beneath
Its master, its eagle soaring.

38. So I gained unlike what
They gained when its spoils were divided.

39. But ask Kindah, inform me
Of the son of Kabasha what his character.

40. Misery is like a pearl the day
His companions parted from him.

41. The fragrance of musk wafted when his
Tent was attacked.

42. Who will convey to me Rabīʿah
Then does not forget its reward?

43. Whenever I come to it
The forelegs of my she-camel are not dry its reward.

44. The generous one, son of generous
For every generous there is his profit.