1. لا زالَ صَوبٌ مِن رَبيع وَصَيّف

    يَجودُ عَلى حِسّي الغَميم فَيَترَب

    May spring and summer rain never cease

    to fall generously on the waterholes of al-Ghamim, then Yatrab.

  2. فَواللَهِ ما أُسقِي البَلادَ لِحُبِّها

    وَلَكِنَّما أُسقيكَ حارِ بنَ تَولَبِ

    For, by God, I seek rain for the land not out of love for it,

    but only for you, Har, son of Tawlab, do I seek rain.

  3. تَضَمَّنَت أَدواءَ العَشيرَةِ بَينَها

    وَأَنتَ عَلى أَعوادِ نَعشٍ مَقلَبِ

    It has enclosed the clan’s afflictions within itself,

    while you lie, turned about, upon the timbers of a bier.

  4. كَأَنَّ اِمرِءاً في الناسِ كُنتُ اِبنَ أُمِّهِ

    عَلى فَلجٍ مِن بَطنِ دَجلَةَ مُطنِبِ

    As though a man among men, whose mother was also mine,

    were upon a far-stretching channel from the bed of the Tigris.