1. My she-camel grazed in Umm Ayman, a grazing
That makes its looseness all the way to Al-Haqab droop

2. They say, and proverbs are coined for grief
Don't you have patience for what grieved you?

3. Your eyes wept but for a shelter
Whose traces the wind and rain erased after you

4. It left in Umm Ayman after it
Ashes and desolate stones in a desert expanse

5. My friends stopped by it as if I
Were in its hands a culprit they avenged

6. So I said to them, “Go on to what you must
For long has our visit to its abodes been estranged”

7. As for us, we are but passersby to its people other than this
The hand of fate except it takes us on a journey

8. When a man's head whitens thus
And he desists not from ignorance, he has no excuse

9. Abandoned below the houses like locusts
When dawn breaks along with panic, they flee

10. Glowering, never ceasing, under their bellies
Are the robes of heroes, their banners crimson

11. They left the son of he of the two mantles wailing, leaning
With none but his grave-niche to console him

12. And they in loose dresses came to the aid of
The Edifice of Frowning after the twilight withdrew

13. And they are on the cheeks of Shutyair son of Khalid
Pure calamity from its windows poured out

14. And one day their steeds trampled over Ibn al-Jawn
As the branded palms would trample the snakes