فَرَّ وَأَلقى لَنا رُمحَهُ

لَعَلَّكَ عِكرِمَ لَم تَفعَلِ

He fled and threw down his spear to us

Perhaps you, O Akrima, did not act thus!

وَوَلَّيتَ تَعدو كَعَدوِ الظَليمِ

ما إِن تَجورُ عَنِ المَعدِلِ

You turned and fled like the flight of the unarmed

Never swerving from the right course

وَلَم تُلقِ ظَهرَكَ مُستَأنِساً

كَأَنَّ قَفاكَ قَفا فُرعُلِ

Nor offering your back as though secure

As though your shoulders were the shoulders of Furay'ul!