1. She glanced at me, so I saw a flashing light
That brought back memories to my mind

2. The onlookers at her radiance say
We see a shining sun on the horizon

3. Indeed, your trysts have lied, O mother of mankind
My yearning has been prolonged and my wait

4. You hurried to blame us, though your night is not pleasing
Our mounts galloped while your night is not serene

5. You cared little for what my feet endured
And my journey in the glowing desert

6. And days I spent on mounts
As if their poison is blazing fire

7. As if over their backbones was estrangement
Like the flames of lamps or gushing springs

8. Indeed the wretch has spent the night in humiliation
While the eminent spent it with pride

9. Bangles of slaves and robes of monkeys
And a braid from an ape with no dignity

10. We recognized the eyebrows of her ape
And the scar on its short fingers

11. We fought and the clan of Tamim said
As if the monkey had plunged from a roof

12. Greedy-eyed clan of Beni Iqal
At Uqba when they missed my valiance

13. And the clan of Waqdan knew well that I
Am the hornet of calamities, ever unsheathing my sword

14. With Yarbu I fell, and the clan of Saad
So no glory you reached, nor pride

15. For Yarbu, a horseman every day
Whose sun is veiled by the dust of turmoil

16. Utaibah, and Al Uhaimir, and Son of Saad
And Attab, and the horseman with the scarf

17. And the day we caught up with Banu Judaima
At dawn, between the plain and the hillsides

18. Faces of the cowardly dyed with disgrace
Evident on the mantles and coats

19. And the skin of each coward swore
The shirt of disgrace is not borrowed

20. Did the eminent deceive you about your father
And the tale of two loads on a donkey?

21. We found the house of Dhabba in Ma'ad
Like a hyena's den with no ring

22. We found them crows perched on a barren land
With no spring flowing, nor freshness