1. Though Tamim was my home, and though I was the pillar of Qudamis,
I praise the young men of Bakr ibn Wa'il

2. With praise that meets their caravan in seasons of coming and going.
On the day of Dhi Qar they halted and fiercely joined battle,

3. With a leader before whom the bold warriors pale.
They halted against Chosroes when his armies came,

4. And Bahra when his multitudes approached.
When they had repelled one flank of the foe, another came at them,

5. But they drove them off with the onslaught of calamity.
With famed, flashing swords that when they met

6. The skulls of the white foe revealed the brains within.
They did not cease until their women came to mourn them

7. In the plains of Dhi Qar, wandering in distress.
Sufficient are my people, they who support their leader

8. When their oaths are tested by disaster.
Men who, when the hound disowns its master,

9. Halt and seek refuge in merciless swords.