كَأَنَّ شُرَيحاً خَرَّ مِن مُشمَخَرَّةٍ

وَجارَي شُرَيحٍ مِن مَواسِلِ فَالوَعر

As though Shurayḥ had fallen from a towering height,

and Shurayḥ’s two neighbors [had fallen] from Mawāsil, then al-Daḥraj,

وَنون تَزُلُّ الطَيرَ عَن قُذفاتُها

وَتَرمي أَمامَ السَهلِ بِالصضدعِ الغَفرِ

and from Nūn, whose precipices make the birds slip,

and which flings shaggy hyenas before the plain.