Sol 6.1

  1. Jarir was distracted from his father and mother

    By a place delightful to young men.

  2. When a woman of ill repute sees him, she smiles

    At him and says, “Indeed, this one is well suited.”

  3. He spends the night sniffing the milch she-camels as they rest motionless,

    As a pampered stud-camel sniffed maiden white she-camels.

  4. He frowns at gray-haired women, yet he

    Beams at every woman with yellow fingertips.

  5. A brazen fellow—the dog keeps chewing his robe;

    He has a path through the haunts of lovely women.

  6. Ever going out and coming in, flighty, as though

    He were bound by a pledge never to come to his senses.

  7. He is rough in driving pregnant she-camels and pasturing them,

    But gentle in making the rings dance.

  8. And Aws son of Mudlij falls short of him;

    And he is the one Tariq and Zaniq fear.

Sol 6.1