1. Alas! That old woman Umm Al-Hibreezi has clearly seen
My bones, among them a decrepit and broken one,

2. And she said: "You have withered in the morning, and whoever was
A young man before the year of drought is now an old man."

3. So I said to her: "Al-Ujayr sands have turned over me,
Bellies have worn me out upon them and backs."

4. Among them is my riding every star
That has among the stars of Oman a peer.

5. And among them is my knocking on every door as if
The people expect the ears by it to be auspicious.

6. So I came while my opponents were baring their fangs
As if the poles were turned under the litters.

7. In the presence of a king whose gaze kindles the people,
Above the legs of whose throne a lion roars,

8. When the skullcaps and turbans are admitted,
And in them the heads of men are bare,

9. And the garment of affiliation is cast away as if it were
A horse cloth beneath the men a Small filly,

10. In the presence of everyone trusted among his likes,
Who has a foot firmly planted among the orators,

11. Loud, with loosened reins, answering back and forth,
Discerning of the flaws of speech, experienced,

12. And the day the tongues of the people vie therein,
And deaths have places amongst them where they wander,

13. If the silent mountains heard its impact,
They would return, and their peaks would appear in it,

14. And I have a flashing blade, if it attained water before it,
It would determine it and the long spears of Mount Tuwayq are many.

15. So I rode out vigorously, and the steed is perseverant
In its running, defective and facile,

16. And the surrendered to destinations does not outstrip them,
Slow to the spear points' encounter and stumbling.

17. But the gait of galloping, far-striding,
When the noonday heat is tested, is refractory,

18. And do not scorn me, and look what my nature is
When a matter presents itself or a prince encamps.

19. For the clan of Ka'b are men who are as though they are
Stars of Suroo, by which its walls are fortified,

20. They passed by its lofty places so they let down
A continual dripping beneath the gum trees murmuring,

21. Resolute, you would not find them save you found them
As the rumbling of two rocks from the stallion camel's saddlebags,

22. When a star from them disappeared, a star shone,
For I am the copious drizzle, great of bucket,

23. And if they descended at a house they humiliated its wealth
So it became a pasturage and breasts upon it,