1. Huraym breached the walls of Babylon with his spear
To free the votive offerings of Tameem's women taken captive

2. So they awoke no longer valuing their own souls
If death should take others while they remained alive

3. Ever first to thrust his lance before the cavalry
And last to turn away when the ranks retreated

4. At dusk not knowing whether to advance his sword
Or yield his hand when paralyzed by fear

5. And dawn found him slaughtering like a yellow camel
Her legs struck if she strayed or turned away

6. By my life Huraym made plain with his sword
Faces masked in dust now laid bare

7. "How can there be battle?" said one woman
Had she but seen Huraym her eyes would have rolled in fear

8. He charged ever foremost, never holding back
Horses shied at the sight of him in full retreat

9. Son of Marwan, leading his troops has come against you
Eighty thousand horses, their tents spread dark beneath them

10. Of no avail the moat you dug around you
When their blades leapt clear of scabbards like flashes of light

11. As though the skulls of Azd were the white domes of Hanthal
Scattering over their shoulders when put to flight

12. The Syrian troops swooped down on you in multitudes
With breastplates clattering like birds taking wing in haste

13. Soothsayers warn that you have broken faith
With Damascus, rallying point when war was stirred

14. Rocks of ash scattered from the peak of Sharaa
Pelting the foe in spite of them wrought long in vain