نُبِّئتُ أَنَّ دَماً حَراماً نِلتَهُ

فَهُريقَ في ثَوبٍ عَلَيكَ مُحَبَّرِ

I'm told you gained blood that was forbidden

So it was spilled onto a robe that stained you

نُبِّئتُ أَنَّ بَني سُحَيمٍ أَدخَلوا

أَبياتَهُم تامورَ نَفسِ المُنذِرِ

I'm told the tribe of Suhaym brought

Their verses to Tāmūr, that warner himself

فَلَبِئسَ ما كَسَبَ اِبنُ عَمروٍ رَهطَهُ

شَمِرٌ وَكانَ بِمَسمَعٍ وَبِمَنظَرِ

So evil is what the son of ‘Amr gained for his people

Shimir, who had hearing and sight

زَعَمَ اِبنُ سُلمِيٍّ مُرارَةُ أَنَّهُ

مَولى السَواقِطِ دونَ آلِ المُنذِرِ

The son of Sulami claims that he

Is the master of the falling stars, not the clan of al-Munthir

مَنَعَ اليَمامَةَ حَزنَها وَسُهولَها

مِن كُلِّ ذي تاجٍ كَريمِ المَفخَرِ

He denied al-Yamāmah its sorrow and plains

From every crowned noble of pride

إِن كانَ ظَنّي في اِبنِ هِندٍ صادِقاً

لَم يَحقُنوها في السِقاءِ الأَوفَرِ

If my assumption about Ibn Hind is true

He did not spare it the most abundant water-skin

حَتّى يَلُفَّ نَخيلَهُم وَزُروعَهُم

لَهَبٌ كَناصِيَةِ الحِصانِ الأَشقَرِ

Until their palms and crops are wrapped

In a blaze like the blond horse's forelock