1. على كل ذَيَّالٍ أَطارَ نَسِيلَهُ

    عُبابُ الحيا والخِصصبُ حتى تَفَيَّلا

    On every long-tailed mount, whose loose hair was sent flying

    by surging rain and abundant pasture, until it grew huge as an elephant.

  2. رَعى للروضَ والقُريانَ حتى إذا رأى

    نَصالَ السَّفا من حيثُ رُكِّبن نُصِّلا

    It grazed in the meadows and watercourse beds until, when it saw

    the spearheads of the grass awns pulled free from where they had been fitted...