أَلَم أَرمِ عَنكُم إِذ عَجَزتُم عَدُوَّكُم

بِجَندَلَتي حَتّى تَكَسَّرَ بازِلُه

Did I not ward off your enemy from you when you were helpless

With my well-forged sword until its hilt was smashed?

فَإِن أَهجُ كَعباً أَو كِلاباً فَإِنَّهُم

كِلا طَرَفَيهِم لِلنَمَيرِيِّ فاضِلُه

If I stir up Ka'b or the dogs, verily both are

In their entirety for Al-Numayri ever bountiful.

كِلابٌ وَكَعبٌ ذِروَتانِ تَلاقَتا

بِمَجدَينِ لا زَوجِ الخَلِيَّةِ نائِلُه

Both the dogs and Ka'b are two lofty peaks that met

In two glories that no couple in privacy has attained.

إِذا غَلَبَ اللُؤمُ اِمرَأً أَن يُطيقَهُ

فَإِنَّ اِبنَ راعي الإِبلِ عَنهُ لَحامِلُه

When cowardice overcomes a man to endure it,

Then the son of the camel herder will carry it from him

تَضَمَّنَهُ عَنهُ كَما كانَ قَبلَهُ

أَبوهُ عَنِ الراعي عُبَيدٍ يُناقِلُه

As his father carried it from the herder Ubayd who conveyed it.

Perhaps the son of the camel herder thinks that if

لَعَلَّ اِبنَ راعي الإِبلِ يَحسِبُ أَنَّهُ

إِذا وَطبُهُ مَجَّ الثُمالَةَ شاغِلُه

Good fortune swaddles him cozily occupation distracts him.

I prohibited the son of the camel herder from me yet he did not

نَهَيتُ اِبنَ راعي الإِبلِ عَنّي فَلَم يَزَل

بِهِ الحَينُ حَتّى أَطلَقَتهُ حَبائِلُه

Stop insisting until I released his ropes.

So say to the son of the camel herder: Do you have a coat of mail

فَقُل لِاِبنِ راعي الإِبلِ هَل لَكَ جُنَّةٌ

تَقيكَ إِذا غَيثي أَصابَكَ وابِلُه

To protect you if my rain pours on you heavily?

My rain clouds, if they rain upon your eyes, will make

شَآبيبُ إِن يُمطِرنَ عَينَيكَ يَختَلِف

لِرَأسِكَ أَعلى فَكِّهِ وَأَسافِلُه

The crown of your head and bottom unlike.

It makes wretched the life of Al-'Amri then he perishes

تُزايِلُ نَفسَ العامِرِيَّ حَياتَهُ

فَيَبلى وَيَأبى لُؤمُهُ لا يَزايِلُه

And his cowardice refuses to leave him.