وَلَم تَمنَعوا يَومَ الهُذَيلِ بَناتِكُم

بَني الكَلبَ وَالحامي الحَقيقَةَ مانِعُ

You did not prevent your daughters from the sons of Kalb and the truthful protector on the day of Hudhayl

The next morning the horses of Hudhayl came after you

غَداةَ أَتَت خَيلُ الهُذَيلِ وَراءَكُم

وَسُدَّت عَلَيكُم مِن إِرابَ المَطالِعُ

And the places of descent were closed to you

They cried to you while the spears were like

بَكَينَ إِلَيكُم وَالرِماحُ كَأَنَّها

مَعَ القَومِ أَشطانَ الجَرورِ النَوازِعُ

The tyrants of the people, the violent snatchers

She called, O Leyrabou, and the chests of the heights and the severing men prevented her

دَعَت يا لَيَربوعٍ وَقَد حالَ دونَها

صُدورُ العَوالي وَالذُكورُ القَواطِعُ

So what catching up do you expect when

The yielding women have come upon the expectations of the fat

فَأَيَّ لَحاقٍ تَنظُرونَ وَقَد أَتى

عَلى أُمُلِ الدَهنا النِساءُ الرَواضِعُ

And they are followers looking back at you

For their litters behind the men, the makers of clatter

وَهُنَّ رُدافى يَلتَفِتنَ إِلَيكُمُ

لِأَسوُقِها خَلفَ الرِجالِ قَعاقِعُ

With a cry, when a howdah sways with them, the torrents of longing are seen from it

You see in the houses of the Kulaybiyyat amidst their homes

بِعيطٍ إِذا مالَت بِهِنَّ خَميلَةٌ

مَرى عَبَراتِ الشَوقِ مِنها المَدامِعُ

The faces of maidens not veiled by the litters

تَرى لِلكُلَيبِيّاتِ وَسطَ بُيوتِهِم

وُجوهَ إِماءٍ لَم تَصُنها البَراقِعُ