1. تُكَلِّفُني حَيَّينِ أَدنى مَحَلِّهِم

    بِأُدمانَ أَو بِالقِنعِ قِنعِ الطَّرائِفِ

    She bids me seek two clans, whose nearest encampment

    Is at Udmān or al-Qinʿ, Qinʿ al-Ṭarāʾif.

  2. نِتاجُ العِشارِ المُنقِياتِ إِذا شَتَت

    رَوابِدُها مِثلُ النَعامِ العَواطِفِ

    The offspring of marrow-rich, ten-month-pregnant she-camels, when they winter—

    Their resting ones are like ostriches turning back.

  3. وَحَتّى حَمَلنا رَحلَ كُلِّ مُذِمَّةٍ

    وَكُلِّ مُذِمٍّ بِالفَلاةِ وَزاحِفِ

    And until we carried the saddle of every exhausted she-camel,

    And every exhausted male in the wilderness, and every one dragging itself along.