1. A craving depiction yearned anxiously,
So long you remained depressed and gloomy,

2. When you saw the abode deserted,
With clay how long it resisted and endured,

3. A house of affection with curtains,
The rope of the pact snapped and broke,

4. Between the valley streams like
The starling of Mundhir's son sang,

5. The birds informed you when they chanced,
And the ominous raven when it croaked,

6. That Hind is not veiled,
In the abode like the one who reckoned,

7. And a bare-headed Arab woman
Whose gratitude I earned deservingly,

8. Then she became unable to speak to us,
Every living being has what comes after,

9. And I took refuge in Thu'ba,
Where they have good manners between them,

10. Then I watered the camels and did not
Become a dog among dogs,

11. And Mayyi whose abode
Meeting him was not playing,

12. So we were separated by a glance
That kindled the ashes,

13. And we gambled our souls though
Parting causes laments,

14. And I visited a relative
And looked a wondrous look,

15. Of the offspring of Hawran I said to him
While both of us were intent and busy,

16. Do you see, O Aba Ubayd,
Approaching companies bound tightly,

17. Roaming together
From the heights of Hail ascending,

18. Cutting through the belly of Mafeqah,
Brandishing weapons and spears,

19. Terrifying with cries together
From the heights of Azif ascending,

20. Are they human, I said, you think
Or palm trees laden with fruit,

21. And on the litters unveiled
Sporting pearls and gold,

22. Inform the kings, whichever
Drew apart or came near in the land,

23. That around me are offspring of Ajaa
Whose valor seems established,

24. Around it our camels graze
Eating thorns and anab,

25. O Burayqa who spent the night awake
Hiding in the baggage,

26. He spent the night ascending in the sky as
A shooting star kindled the reeds,

27. Under it a yamani wind
Stirring up a storm,

28. Then it sweeps the water that calmed
So when it rages it is turbulent,

29. So let the clan of Thu'al water it
And let its meadows give it to drink,

30. And the clan of Jarm, though they claimed
That my poetry was fabricated,

31. I am not the one they claimed
A mediator among Tayyi in lineage,

32. I am from Ghadbah who grazed
A peak when she was not with calf,