1. 'Amrah gathered together an age, so be inventive
For only restrictions soften the heart

2. Do not let this love of yours be exposed
This is not for you, O 'Amr, in secret

3. Hasan asked, "Who are my maternal uncles?"
One is only asked about what is obscure

4. I said, "My uncles are the Banu Ka'b if
The heroes submit the flaws of the backsides

5. Many a maternal uncle I have, if you saw him
Of supple gait in the day of warfare

6. By this abode, while its dweller
Has a face brightly complexioned and free

7. He kindles the fire when it goes out
He readies the pot with bundles of sticks

8. Who does fate deceive or feel safe from it
After a lifetime and becoming old?

9. Two kings, from the snow-covered mountain to
The two sides of a doe, of 'Abd and free

10. Then they were the best two who obtained bounty
They surpassed people in fairness and righteousness

11. My two horsemen, when the sand-hill
Doe seizes their steed's hem

12. They came to the horsemen in their abode
And after protecting them, they cudgeled them

13. Then they cried, "O Ghassan, be patient
It is a day of my ordeal, so be patient"

14. Make the Protected One your oath
With pure striking, not vile

15. With blows the jinn give permission to it
And stabbing like the mouths of hawks

16. And indeed those who fought us know
That we benefit a leg and make it flourish

17. Patience for death if it befalls us
Truthful in might, cavaliers of pride

18. And glory and wealth remained with us
So for us over people is grandeur

19. Among them is my lineage, so who prides himself in it?
People recognize the pride of the proud

20. We are the people of glory and honor together
Without decline or difficult deviation

21. So ask about us and our deeds
Every people with knowledge of news'