1. ماذا رُزِئنا بِهِ مِن حَيَّةٍ ذَكَرٍ

    نَضناضَةٍ بِالرَذايا صِلِّ أَصلالِ

    What a loss we suffered in him—a male serpent,

    ever flicking his tongue amid calamities, a viper among vipers!

  2. لا يَهنَأِ الناسَ ما يَرعَونَ مِن كَلَإٍ

    وَما يَسوقونَ مِن أَهلٍ وَمِن مالِ

    May people find no pleasure in the pasture they graze,

    nor in the kin and livestock they drive along,

  3. بَعدَ اِبنِ عاتِكَةَ الثاوي عَلى أَبَوى

    أَضحى بِبَلدَةِ لا عَمٍّ وَلا خالِ

    after the son of Atika, resting at Abwa.

    He now lies in a land with neither paternal nor maternal uncle:

  4. سَهلِ الخَليقَةِ مَشّاءٍ بِأَقدُمِهِ

    إِلى ذَواتِ الذَرى حَمّالِ أَثقالِ

    gentle in nature, ever walking on his own feet

    to the high-humped she-camels, a bearer of heavy burdens.

  5. حَسبُ الخَليلَينِ نَأيُ الأَرضِ بَينَهُما

    هَذا عَلَيها وَهَذا تَحتَها بالي

    For two friends, the earth between them is distance enough:

    this one upon it, and that one beneath it, decaying.