أَأَجمَعُ صُحبَتي سَحَرَ اِرتِحالا

وَلَم أَشعُر بِبَينٍ مِنكِ هالا

Shall I gather my companions at dawn’s charm

Yet feel no separation from you that alarms?

وَلَم أَرَ مِثلَ هالَةَ في مَعَدٍّ

تُشَبَّهُ حُسنَها إِلّا الهِلالا

None can equal your beauty’s striking halo—

The crescent moon yourself you embalm.

أَلا أَبلِغ بَني جُشَمَ بنِ بَكرٍ

وَتَغلِبَ كُلَّها نَبَأً حِلالا

Shall I give the Bani Jusham tribe the news—

Most pleasing and sweet the tidings I exhume—

بِأَنَّ الماجِدَ القَرْمَ اِبنَ عَمْروٍ

غَداةَ نَطاعِ قَد صَدَقَ القِتالا

That Majid, son of Amr the shield did seize

And sincere at dawn’s light proved in the bloody gloom?

كَتيبَتُهُ مُلَملَمَةٌ رَداحٌ

إِذا يَرمونَها تُنبي النِبالا

His brave squadron attacked most fiercely

As their arrows found their foe’s targets to consume

جَزى اللَهُ الأَغَرَّ يَزيدَ خَيراً

وَلَقّاهُ المَسَرَّةَ وَالجَمالا

May God reward the prominent Yazeed with good

And may he enjoy beauty and grace to assume

بِمَأخَذِهِ اِبنَ كُلثومِ بنِ سَعدٍ

يَزيدُ الخَيرِ نازَلَهُ نِزالا

From Ma’khadh Ibn Kalthoum, son of Sa’d

Descends the bounty of goodness to resume

بِجَمعٍ مِن بَني قُرّانَ صيدٍ

يُجيلونَ الطِعانَ إِذا أَجالا

With the clan of Qurran and Sayyid’s line

Who launch spears when called to overcome

يَزيدُ يُقَدِّمُ الشَقَراءَ حَتّى

يُرَوّي صَدرَها الأَسَلَ النِهالا

Yazeed puts the enemy host to flight

To satisfy and water his steed, making it bloom