Sol 6.1

  1. لو كان عباسٌ هنالك حاضراً

    لَهَوى وقد خُضِبَ الجبينُ بعُصفُرِ

    Had Abbas been present there,

    he would surely have fallen, his brow dyed with safflower.

  2. ولقد صَبَحتُ بها عُمارةَ غُدوةً

    والبِيضُ تعلو فوقه بالمنشرِ

    And indeed, I attacked Umarah with it at dawn,

    while white swords rose above him at al-Manshar.

  3. ولقد تركتُ أبا تميمٍ بعد ما

    عَضَّ الحسامُ جَبينَه لم يُقبَرِ

    And indeed, I left Abu Tamim, after

    the keen sword bit his brow, unburied,

  4. في فتيةٍ من قومه خُضبت لهم

    سُودُ اللِّحى من عاتِكٍ مُتَحيِّرِ

    among young men of his people, whose

    black beards were dyed with dark-red, pooled blood.

  5. لمّا وقعنا في التنازُلِ خَفخَفَت

    مثلَ النعام مَخَافةً للأَشقرِ

    When we joined in close combat, they fluttered away

    like ostriches, for fear of al-Ashqar.

  6. ثم استمرّ القومُ فوق ركابهم

    وسُلَيمُ صَرعى في العَجَاج الأَكدَرِ

    Then the men sped onward upon their mounts,

    while Sulaym lay slain in the murky dust.

  7. لمّا انتمى لأبيه شدَّ بصارمٍ

    يَفري الجماجمَ تحت زَردِ المِغفَرِ

    When he proclaimed his father's name, he charged with a keen sword

    that cleaves skulls beneath the helmet's mail.

  8. فكساهُ قَدرَ الشِّبر منه فانكفَا

    شَطرَينِ من مُتَيَمِّنٍ ومُيَسَّرِ

    So he drove a handspan of it into him, and he toppled,

    in two halves, one to the right and one to the left.

  9. فهوى لِقُطرَيهِ بأَفحشِ ضربةٍ

    من كفّ رِئبالِ العرينِ غَضَنفَرِ

    So he fell, his halves on either side, beneath a most dreadful blow

    from the hand of a mighty lion of the lair.