1. What is wrong with my eyes that their tears keep flowing
With the memory of a cheek the embers scattered over?

2. Loneliness has become familiar and home
So the shape has changed although the land is the same

3. I did not know how estranged they were from me
Until I saw the tribe had departed

4. So they left me with my soul in turmoil
Not comforted and worries still testing me

5. Leave this and count the poets among the group
Who call my glory and praise an honor

6. If I were to boast of glory I would find them
People of action when described

7. So pass on from me, matching rhyme
That would humble them that they swore alliance with us

8. By God, striving that “We will kill you
A violent killing” and the horses in open country

9. Or we will make a plea for flight in (our) auxiliaries
As half the battalion came into the open

10. “You were slaves to us, we favored you,
Whoever came to us” and slaves grow arrogant

11. How dare you belittle our glory in ignorance?
While you are a tribe with no glory

12. Your lineage is your own while ours honored us
An ancestry for us of those who gain victory in action

13. You made whoever possessed glory to lose it
Like the slaves of (our) auxiliaries whenever described

14. Why did you not get angry for the slaves who were killed
The day of Bu’ath darkly shaded by clouds?

15. We kill them and the swords take them
Violently while you stand there dejected

16. And how many chieftains of yours have we killed
In a mangled corpse whose parts are scattered

17. And what worthless slave swears alliance with you
With no tribe and no honor

18. Sumayra is decidedly a slave exceeded in folly
His ancestors were slaves to us and perished

19. By the priests whose ancestors
Were slaves to divining arrows and staves if you inquire