أَلَمَّ خيالٌ من أُمَيمَةَ مَوهِناً

وقد جَعَلَت أُولى النُجومِ تَغورُ

A hope from Ummaymah has come to comfort me

As the first stars begin to set in the west

ونحن بصحراءِ العُذَيب ودارُها

حجازيةٌ إِنَّ المَحَلَّ شَطيرُ

While we are in the desert of Udhayb, her home

Is Hejazi, indeed this place is excellent

تَحِنُّ بباب القادسية ناقتي

وسعدُ بنُ وقّاصٍ عليَّ أميرُ

My she-camel yearns by the gate of Al-Qadisiya

And Sa'd ibn Waqqas is over me, a prince

وسعدٌ أميرٌ شرُّهُ دون خيرِهِ

طويلُ الشذا كابي الزنادِ قصيرُ

And Sa'd is a prince, his evil less than his good

Tall of frame, short of supplies and provision

تَذَكَّر هَداكَ اللَهُ وَقعَ سيوفنا

بباب قُدَيسٍ والمَكَرُّ عسيرُ

Remember God has guided you, and our swords fell

At the gate of Qudayd, though the scheme was hard

عشيَّةَ وَدَّ القومُ لو أَنَّ بعضهم

يُعارُ جناحَي طائرٍ فيطيرُ

An evening, had the people wished, that some of them

Could borrow the wings of a bird and fly away