لِأَنّي لاخشى مِن قَلاص اِبن مُحرِز

لِأَنّي لاخشى مِن قَلاص اِبن مُحرِز

إذا وَخدت بِالدَوّ وَخُذ النَعائِم

إذا وَخدت بِالدَوّ وَخُذ النَعائِم

For surely I fear Ibn Muhriz’s young she-camels

For I indeed fear the young she-camels of Ibn Muhriz,

when they race across the waste with the ostriches’ swift stride;

when they stride across the desert with the swift gait of ostriches.

يَرُعنَ بِطين القَومِ ايةَ رَوعَة

يَرُعنَ بِطين القَومِ ايةَ رَوعَة

ضُحَيّا إِذا اِستَبلَنه غَير نائِم

ضُحَيّا إِذا اِستَبلَنه غَير نائِم

they strike the clan’s stout man with such a fright

They give the tribe’s potbellied man quite a fright,

in broad morning, when they meet him wide awake.

in the forenoon, when they make him urinate though he is awake.