1. Had it not been for the hand of Bishr son of Marwan, I would not have suffered
The swelling of rage in the heart of the afflicted one

2. If you close the doors before me and veil yourself
Then I have neither a heedless mother nor father

3. But the people of the two villages are my kinsmen
And they are not a valley folk of Oman, aiming straight

4. Ghatarif of Qais, whenever I call upon them
And Khindif come to the cry of the supple one

5. And when I saw the Azd panting, their beards
Around a despicable Mezouni, riding the saddle

6. Wearing braids after the helmets, helpless
I wondered and whoever hears of this will wonder

7. Frowning noses that were not Arabian
The beards of Nabataeans, their mouths not Arabized

8. How could they not come to Mecca for pilgrimage
And worship idols at the stoning place

9. And no caller called, "O morning!" so they rode
To panic except in a daubed ship

10. No Azdiya was stung by a circumciser
Nor drank in the skin of Khubb, flavored

11. She was not visited by the hunter with eggs and ostriches
Nor ate the claws of Manih, tracked

12. Nor did a weaned sky rain over her
A shaded Bedouin woman above the rooftop

13. Nor did she light a fire for a kindler
To approach her, nor was the barking of dogs heard by her

14. Nor did the criminal scatter thorns before her
Nor did she move in fright, a flood of tail

15. Nor did the shepherd dance hastily toward her
With the gait of copulation or a meadow's isolation