1. I restored to ʿAmr ibn Qays my necklace—

    eighty black camels from the heights of Mount al-Haḍb.

  2. Had my mother not borne me, it would have flown away,

    the fabled Phoenix bearing it from my brother Kalb’s keeping.

  3. I would not allow him to choose for himself

    the clients’ offering: a young camel and a male calf.

  4. Never has my eye beheld a horseman like Murra,

    the morn al-Saffāḥ cried, “To the aid of al-Shajb’s sons!”

  5. Yet by root and stock he was not one of Taym’s sons,

    nor of ʿAbd Wudd, by pedigree or blood.

  6. And Ibn Kulthūm broke away from al-ʿAbd after

    he had disavowed before him Khālid and the sons of Kaʿb.

Sol 5.6