ومستحلم بخشى اللحاق وقد تلا

به مبطيء قد مَنَّه الجريُ فاتر

Despairing of rejoining his companions, though slackened

By a mount worn out by the journey, lacking strength,

ضعيف القوى رخو العظام كأنّها

حبالٌ نضته مبطئات مَحامُر

Its limbs all loose-jointed as if they were ropes

Braiding and hampering its slow pace.

عَلى صَلَوَيه مرهفات كأنها

قوادم دلَّتها نسورٌ نواشِر

Its knee joints seem

As though vultures' talons had hammered them in.

فنهنهت عنه القوم حتّى كانّما

حَبا دُونَه ليثٌ بخفَان خادِرُ

The tribe held back from it until it was as though

Amid weaklings a lion ambled halting, subdued.

شتيم أبو شبلين اخضل مَتْنهُ

من الدَّجن يومٌ ذو أهاضيب ماطِر

Damn you, ragamuffin Abu Shiblyn, what a sight!

A day dark with pouring rain on Dajan's expanse

تَظَلُّ تغنيه الغرانيق فوقه

أَباءٌ وغيلٌ فوقَهُ متآصِرُ

While cranes floating above it intone their elegy-As though united in grieving for what they look down on:

Loving companions parted from their Saalim, now left

مُحِبَا كاحباب السَّليم وما به

سِوى أَسَفٍ ألاَ يَرى من يُساوِرُ

With no more than grief that none remains to console.