يا رُبَّ بَيتٍ بِفَضاءٍ سَبسَبِ

بَعيدِ بَينَ السَمكِ وَالمُطَنَّبِ

O Lord of a house in a spacious wilderness

Many a tent stands in a barren, sweeping void,

Far between fish and chickpea

With a great span between its high roof and its pegs,

لِفِتيَةٍ قَد بَكَّروا بِأَكلُبِ

قَد أَدَّبوها أَحسَنَ التَأَدُّبِ

For young men who rose early with dogs

Belonging to youths who set out early with hounds,

They have trained them in the best discipline

Which they have trained with the finest of discipline,

مِن كُلِّ أَدفى مَيَسانِ المَنكِبِ

يَشُبُّ في القَودِ شُبوبَ المُقرَبِ

From every hot the ribs reach

Each one arched-backed, with swaggering shoulders,

It grows in fetters the youth of the trained one

Leaping on the leash like a pampered, noble steed,

يُلحِقُ أُذنَيهِ بِحَدِّ المِخلَبِ

فَما تَني وَشيقَةً مِن أَرنَبِ

It makes its ears reach the edge of the claw

Stretching his ears down to the tips of his claws,

So it does not miss a rabbit

Never failing to bring back the sliced flesh of a hare,

عِندَهُمُ أَو تَيسُ وُبلٍ عَلهَبِ

وَفَروَةٍ مَسلوبَةٍ مِن ثَعلَبِ

When they have a he-goat or zebra

Or in their possession, a shaggy mountain buck,

And a skin stripped from a fox

And a fur pelt stripped from a fox,

مَقلوبَةِ الجِلدَةِ أَو لَم تُقلَبِ

وَعَيرُ عافاتٍ وَأُمُّ تَولَبِ

Turned over or not turned over

Whether the hide is turned inside-out or left plain,

And a trained she-camel and mother of cubs

And a wild ass of the desert, and a nursing mother.