1. For Shamma after the scattering of resolve
When I had imagined lightning and abundant rain

2. That stirred a caravan for which there was a guide
Revealing to the cheek a gentle trail

3. As if its succession with the night
Were foreign ships sailing gently

4. I became infatuated with it like the flash of lightning
That turns in the palm a light burden

5. So the length of its scattering came
As if they were plunder taken violently

6. And it came bitter toward Magdal
The gait of the fettered walking freely

7. And when it saw the depth before it
And when it saw Omar and al-Munifa

8. It let down from the night its branches
As if its exteriorities were hollow

9. And that radiance unlike the stars
You would think it had a smooth coating

10. To Omarayn, to Ghayqah
So it swayed guiding a hollow caravan

11. As if its succession with the night
Were Christians led forcibly to belief

12. So it became between the valley of Qusur
Until it churned up at Yalamalam a stagnant pool

13. For it there was ebb and for it contention
Churning in the bucket water muddily

14. So if you spurn me and shun
Your familiar place and it became detested

15. Then the son of Turayna, when I come to you
I see him repelling speech violently against me

16. He has worn out his fingers his ailment
And so he bites my job angrily

17. So do not sit upon roughness
And harbor in your heart fear and alarm

18. And do not desire for me after prohibition
And after honor evil and malice

19. And do not patch me the patch of the breastplate
In which the artisans sewed deceit

20. And water I came upon falsehood
Like the gait of the thin that walks effortlessly

21. So I stirred the edges of my sword in its sheath
The stirring of the fleeting a drawn cup

22. When I determined therewith my near approach
I set out to roam or as an alternative

23. With me a boon companion settled with resolve
And there was not in the people a weak cowardice

24. Galloping like the gallop of Kurdur you see
In its excellence, though it forgot gently