1. She wanted to take the path of Al-Jafr then she was misled
By guides who said: “The belly of the deep well is easier.”

2. And Sa’d remained where he was at eve as though
He were bits of meat thrown to the young she-camels.

3. Scarcely had she bedded down when she flung herself into her saddlecloth
From the depth of night – an Abyssinian cloak and a torn veil.

4. She makes the young stallions of At-Tanwit stumble at dawn
Where the breast of Buḥrath Mukhbir adjoins.