1. أتنْسى الذي أسديتُه يوم راهطِ

    وقد غَاب عنك المرجُ والمرجُ واسعُ

    Do you forget what I bestowed on the day of Rahit,

    when the meadow vanished from your sight, though the meadow is vast?

  2. وأقبلَ حادي الموتِ يحدو مشمِّرا

    بفرسانِ حرْبِ لم تَرُعْها الروائِعُ

    And death’s camel-driver advanced, chanting, girded for action,

    with horsemen of war whom no terrors had daunted.

  3. عليها قرومُ من قضاعَةَ سادةٌ

    لهمْ شِيَمٌ محمودَةٌ ودسائِعُ

    At its head are chieftains from Quda'a, noble lords;

    theirs are praiseworthy traits and lavish gifts.

  4. إذا لقحَتْ حَرْبٌ مرَتْها سيوفُهمْ

    وأيدٍ طوالٍ لم تَخُنْها الأشاجعُ

    When war conceives, their swords draw her milk,

    and long-reaching hands whose finger-sinews have never failed them.

  5. يرَوْن ورودَ الموتِ حقّاً عليهمُ

    إذا حادَ عن وِرْدَ المنايا المُخادعُ

    They deem coming to death’s watering-place a duty upon them,

    when the deceiver turns aside from doom’s watering-place.

  6. فكمْ من كريمٍ قد تركْنا مُلَحَّباً

    وآخرَ قد سُدَّتْ عليه المطالِعُ

    For many a nobleman have we left hewn down,

    and another whose ways of escape were barred.