أَقسَمتُ لا أَنفَكُّ أُهدي قَصيدَةً

لِصَخرٍ أَخي المِفضالِ في كُلِّ مَجمَعِ

I swore I would not cease to dedicate a poem

To my brother Mifdhal's rock at every assembly

فَدَتكَ سُلَيمٌ كَهلُها وَغُلامُها

وَجُدَّعَ مِنها كُلُّ أَنفٍ وَمِسمَعِ

So for your sake Sulaym offered up her old man and her young

And from her every nose and ear was docked