1. ولما احلوني بصلعاء صيلم

    بإحدى زُبى ذي اللبدتين أبي الشبل

    And when they lodged me in a dire, devastating ordeal,

    in one of the pits of the two-maned lion, father of the cub,

  2. خرجت خروج القدح قدح ابن مقبل

    على الرغم من تلك النوابح والمشلي

    I emerged as the lot-arrow does—the arrow of Ibn Muqbil—

    despite those barking hounds and the one who urged them on.

  3. علي ثياب الغانيات وتحتها

    عزيمة أمر أشبهت سلَّة النصل

    Upon me were the garments of lovely women, and beneath them

    lay a resolve to act that resembled the drawing of a blade.