1. The names though my tribe are neighbors of yours,
And you are the hope of all promised things,

2. The Pleiades will wander at dusk every evening,
With flowers like gold coins, bashful their glances.

3. Her breath after sleep is like musk in the night,
Enveloping all in its fragrant embraces.

4. If you ask how I slept, know that care kept
My eyelids from closing, though slumber entices.

5. A people whose father was victor remain ours,
A year walked in splendor though widowed it was.

6. A glory I keep men from nearing at all,
None can reach the sun or ascend to its hall.

7. I am he the Hudhali, the Khuza'ite acclaimed,
When riders camped, the place where their tents stood.

8. On people a wealth they would pay as their tribute,
An old camel knocking the rocks with his foot.

9. I see every tribe, most generous the one,
Deemed father if he could claim those first scions.

10. We fell down believing all people the same,
Vain most human endeavor, empty its vaunts.

11. Would that truth for all people be made clear as day,
So fools may be checked and the wise find their way.

12. Men rage against any who don't choose their creed,
Though the best deeds flow not from one font alone.

13. O son of Layla, to you now I call,
Who roamed the wide world, and drank from its pools-

14. You poured salve on the wounds of the folk in their griefs,
Like the blender of sauce from fermenting dead grubs.