1. So if I boast of them, it is for the like of their ancient glory;

    through it I scale the rugged heights, and take no easy ground.

  2. Zayd of the Horsemen and Zayd's son are among them,

    and Abu Qabisa, and the first chief.

  3. One evening, as he parted from his clan, a final charge was left

    by Daghfal, at his final testimony and the grave-slab:

  4. Indeed, the son of Dabba was a better father,

    more complete in the honor of noble men, and more excellent

  5. than one whose clan is the sons of Kulayb,

    or one who claims maternal kinship among them.

  6. And they fought against the son of Muzayqiya,

    with thick dust between the cavalry's two dust clouds.

  7. And they are those who, at al-Amil, caught up with

    livestock being driven to the chief and gathered together.

  8. And they fettered Muharriq's right hand to him

    with a captive's shackle; his brother was bound in chains.

  9. Two kings they killed on the day of Bazakha,

    and each of them wore an adorned crown.

  10. And they are those who struck Umara a blow,

    gaping above his skull's sutures, beyond healing.

  11. And when the great men divided up, they were brought back

    by one loyal to Dabba, while the riding-camels were driven away.

  12. A protected neighbor—when the base betray, faith is kept with him

    by ancestral honor and the call of a noble man never forsaken.

  13. And on the evening of the draped camel, they exchanged blows,

    blows that split apart the sutures of its thin skull-bones.

  14. O son of al-Maragha, where is your maternal uncle? As for me,

    my maternal uncle is Hubaysh, a man of deeds, the most excellent.

  15. My uncle is he who robbed kings of their lives,

    and to him Jafna's gifts used to be carried.

  16. Indeed, we strike the head of every tribe,

    while your father picks lice behind his she-ass.

Sol 6.1