1. Is it from Umm Sufyan a spirit passed by,
Gently, so it disturbed a sensitive heart?

2. My heart resisted, but I surrendered it,
And was not of what pained it healed.

3. I used to congratulate him that he sees
From their like safe and sound.

4. I saw - and my family in Wadi ar-Raji’
In the land of Qailah - lightning, very fine,

5. Illuminating maidens whose braids
Were crowned above headbands most elegant.

6. As if the shoulder-bones of camels subdued by travel
In the land of Sirm had come together pleasingly.

7. They took shelter on its two sides
When it went out and the rain was sought.

8. Thrice it went out and the clouds poured forth
And the child gathered in it welling drops.

9. The ostriches circled it but did not recognize
Other than ostriches from Syria.

10. So it descended from sorrow which forgives
And the birds clustered until they shrieked.

11. As if the gazelles, the women’s bosoms,
Were floating above its streams breast-high.

12. So whether you come to abandon me
And seek another in my stead

13. Or whether you come to abandon me
And your recalcitrance has been complete

14. The son of Turayna, when I come to you
I see him disputing an odious argument

15. A friend of truth, like a lion of valor
Rises in battle a glorious rising

16. Swift, long-striding, lofty,
Wrestling or frolicking with it.

17. The raiders march, and before they march,
Gird up their flowing robes.

18. Like the sword of al-Muradi, no coward,
Niggardly, or ugly weakling.

19. He left for you from his body
The strikes of a master and a radiant face.

20. I mounted searching for his mount,
So I walked to the beloved returning-place.

21. On roads like the necks of water-skins -
You would think their twists and bends castles.

22. On them ostriches the men built
Leaving in them ample game.