سَيَمنَعُني مِن أَن أُسامَ دَنِيَّةً

أَبي وَشَليلي وَالضَبيحُ وَمَعشَري

My father and my shabby clothes and the morning light

And my tribesmen will restrain me from submitting to baseness

وَأَبيَضُ مَصقولٌ أُجِدَّ جِلاؤُهُ

وُرُكِّبَ في لَدنِ المَهَزَّةِ أَسمَرِ

A polished white sword whose glint I whet

Was mounted in the scabbard of a dark-skinned warrior