1. I leaned on the names in the sands
Among the lizards and the rugged lands

2. If you meet me, see none but me
Forget the weapons, know the lion's brow

3. What do I think you sing of my brother's guard
Of the nimble lion with shining eyes

4. My father Dhiraghim, his mantle
When do men count it ready for wear?

5. O you who wish to meet me
Keep away or desire me, you'll find

6. I spend the mornings, bitter are its edicts
Hard to tame, fear it and do not transgress

7. When will you return me, issue no edicts
In them salvation, and if you issue I'll not return

8. Think not me an owl struck in the lowlands
By a finger or the eggs of the village

9. I am the son of 'Uqfan, my lineage known
Unless my mother shared me with a stranger

10. I met the kings and withdrew from their blood
Then settled without reason or pyre

11. Of a band who stab horses in plain sight
Till they scatter like frightened cattle

12. They forbid the women if they learn of it
And they reveal the confidential raid

13. I am the son of Sarma, if you ask the best of them
I strike with my foot at their nobles and hands

14. And in the clan of Malik, a mother and Zafirah
Glory moves not from Qais to another

15. I struck them with my veins as I strike
Delicate veins on a slaughtered beast

16. My grandfather is Quda'a, known, and he knows me
Alive, plentiful among the cedars and friends