1. Between al-Lawá and Ḥazíz al-Ajra‘ al-‘Aqid
Are dwellings molded by the eternity of time

2. As though, after their features were erased
My patience and composure were features for separation

3. Dwellings whose cords long drew
Arrogant blood without reason or restraint

4. From every intoxicated eye that was lined
With the kohl of settlements - rather they rose from the cadaver

5. They became friendly so they gained beauty and the finest
Beauty attained by the most noble arts

6. A gazelle accustomed to killing man, how wondrous
That a gazelle from Bani Asad kills man

7. My friend, one who quenched a direction with restraint
Bristling from the living honorable bitterly cold

8. Does every monkey wrap itself in its ignorance
In a garment of light rather than one of monkey

9. So the train of a trailing dress flashes
Before clouds on that plain and support

10. We stirred restlessness in the steeds that stirred
The fire of youth in a heart and in a liver

11. And a land bare like the grazing land of a gazelle
I startled its whelps with the clubfooted she-camel

12. And I said to the travelling company while the passes were unclear
Its valleys were filled by the roarings of camel drivers

13. Vacate the plateau for I am coming to you
A sea of generosity, its billows surging with foam

14. Seeking the best goal and taking refuge
In the countryside of the Glorious from Qais and from Udad

15. Who brings honor to the state of Adnan, and what man
Has stranger merits that are in none other

16. Defending truth in his sanctuaries with keenness of scent
And a lion's pride is not without sharp claws

17. From a people whose glories have become wrapped in prestige
Like the stars they cannot be counted in number

18. They built a house of glory for us and made its pillar
Spears that spare it from needing pillars

19. The sons of Mirdas, the best people when they promise
And fulfill it, while today's promise belies tomorrow

20. They inherited glory so when the past perishes
Dying, it leaves glory to the son

21. No fairer people when you seek them
Nor firmer in stabbing with the spearheads

22. Battle encampments, so their children are raised
Only on the stirrups of the blood-stained warhorse

23. I was delighted, and among what delighted me for you
Was the death of the envious from what he encounters of calamity

24. They returned to the best they were wont to
When asked, they spent and guarded honors with the sword scabbard

25. They possessed al-Raqqa al-Bayda and migrated
With glory from one flourishing land to another

26. Like clouds, God guided their banners
To a land they had not spent the night upon forever

27. Since I am free, my continual praise of them
Is a duty upon me like praising the One, the Eternal