1. We came to you bearing only the banners,
While its ropes were knotted by the dew,

2. And the memory of bearing the banners was not recalled
In the abodes of Ibn Shamam.

3. The dwelling of its people is the belly of a tree trunk
Where doves nest white as the pigeons.

4. My friends and I stood at jujube trees
On curved branches like hooks.

5. So I said to them, look for the grouse I see
Perching at dusk, the wings of darkness.

6. Indeed your soul has granted you favors one day of strength,
Discussions of the infatuated heart,

7. And your soul has lied to you, so lie to it
For as much as it favored you, a harmful deceit.

8. And to a dancer I pulled back the horses from her
When she intended to throw off the reins.

9. So I said to her, shorten your way and walk on,
For the litters are hung on the servants.

10. And horses carrying heroes disheveled
On the morrow of fright like arrows.

11. Hens taking cover over their eggs
Stirring the brooding with the death wail.

12. To horses marked upon which are
The brave in the gloom of darkness.

13. On them every stubborn tyrant
Is seen flocking to drink blood,

14. In their hands Indian swords and spears
As if their poles are flames of fire.

15. So they came challenging with coolness while we came
Ablaze in a valley having flames.

16. And I silenced every voice but the striking,
The stabbing and the throwing and the shooting,

17. And I scattered their regiments with the spear in particles
Upon meadows like the expanse of darkness.

18. I attack them driving my tame horse
Its necklaces the braids like tar.

19. If it pierces with a fang its hands
It meets head-on, hard of stance.

20. As if the ranks of the return of its elbows
Inherited them the axes of arrows.

21. It advanced while it was concealing and harming
Its opponent with the axe of resolution.

22. A young man from the best lineage of Abs leads it
Whose father and mother are from Ham's clan.

23. An old woman from the clan of Ham son of Noah
As if her forehead is the rock of resolve.