أَتَذكُرُ فَخراً في قَبائِلِ يَعرُبٍ

وتُنكِرُ قاراً وَهوَ أَبلَجُ واضِحُ

Do you recall pride in the Arabian tribes?

Yet you deny a neighbor, though evident and clear.

وَيَومَ اللِّقا غادَرتُموها ذَميمَةً

يَسيرُ بِها حاد مِنَ العارِ صادِحُ

On the day we met, you abandoned it, miserable,

As one burdened with disgrace proceeds vociferously.

وَفي رَوضَةِ السُّلَّانِ ثُلَّت عُروشُكُم

ذَوابِلُ في إِيمانِنا وَصفائِحُ

In the garden of the Sultan collapsed your dwellings—

Torrents in our faith, and open sores.

رَعَيتُم هَشيمَ الوادِيَينِ وَبِالرُّبا

مَراتِعُ يَهفو نَبتُها المتَفاوِحُ

You pastured the remnants of the two valleys, and with interest

Meadows where its vegetation wildly mingles.

إِذا شُنَّتِ الغاراتُ حُطَّت بُيوتُكُم

حِذاراً وَلَم يَسرَح مِنَ البَركِ سارِحُ

When raids were waged, your homes crumbled

Wary, no horse was let loose from the cattle-pen.

رَغَت كَلِماتي رَغوَةَ السَّقبِ فيكُمُ

وَجاشَت عَلى ما تَكرَهونَ القَرائِحُ

My words seethed in you like the foam of a goatskin,

And boiled over what you detest in hidden thoughts.

وَسالَت بِأَبكارِ القَوافي شِعابُها

عَلَيكُم وَهُنَّ المُخزِياتُ الفَواضِحُ

Their valleys streamed down virginal rhymes upon you,

As they are the disgraces openly exposed.