1. We brought the horses from either side of the couch
To the most glorious, to the flank of the archer,

2. Through every rat's hole, a pass
Severe in bondage to the enemies, protective.

3. We hit whom we hit, then we retreated
To the people of nobility, towards Samama.

4. And we found someone leading them - may Yazid be cursed! -
The ignorant ones without discipline.

5. So curse Yazid, condemned, or pull away
At his chin with your mouth, like a bridle.

6. You are like the camel-driver of a caravan,
Ignorant, insulting the generous.

7. And the people certainly know you as an old man
Who babbles nonsense every year.

8. You insult the Banu Tamim
Increasingly enamored to enamorment.

9. They wished you well, but you did not affirm them
With anything but insults or contention.

10. And they left you more heavily armed than a lizard
Who saw a falcon and scattered like an ostrich.

11. And they hit you on the head until
The brain's mother appeared from the bones.

12. When they despair it, it bristles at them -
The mother of death, fingers like tent pegs.

13. Who did you a favor that skin covered
Its foulness, and the wearing of clothes?

14. And they gave you the sons of enemies -
With prominent incisors and a foul odor.

15. And the living Ja'far, and the living Ka'b,
And greet the sons of Wahid without any to greet back.

16. For there were no vipers among us,
Nor Thaqif, nor the son of Abi 'Isam.

17. Nor immoral immorality, nor Shuyaym,
Nor your deaf-mute locking the lock.

18. You killed your neighbor and threw him
At your mother - so what is the boy's crime?

19. Verily, the one who informs al-Jarami about me -
The best words are the truthful ones.

20. So why, when you saw Abu Mu'adh
And 'Ulbah, were you not there avenging?

21. I see his hips in it
Fixed to the saddle in place of the saddlebags.