شَجَتكَ لِهِندٍ دِمنَةٌ وَدِيارُ

خِلاءٌ كَما شاءَ الفِراقُ قِفارُ

Your absence grieves me, a land of sorrow,

And the abodes are desolate as separation desired wasteland.

سَليني إِذا ما الحَربُ ثارَت بِأَهلِها

وَلَم يَكُ فيها لِلجِبالِ قَرارُ

Ask me when war flares up with its people,

And there is no rest for the mountains therein,

وَدارَت رُحيُّ المَوتِ وَالصَبرُ قُطبُها

وَأَكثَرُ ما فيها دَمٌ وَغُبارُ

And the winds of death blow, and patience is its axis,

And most of what is in it is blood and dust.

وَقامَ لَها الأَبطالُ بِالبيضِ وَالقَنا

وَهَبَّت رِياحُ الآخَرينَ فَطاروا

And the heroes stood for it with swords and spears,

And the winds blew others, so they flew away.

وَقَد عَلِمَ المَقتولُ بِالشَمِ أَنَّني

أُريدُ بِهِ مَن رامَني وَأَغاروا

And the slain knew by the brand that I

Want with it those who envied me and fled.

إِذا شِئتُ أَوقَرتُ البِلادَ حَوافِراً

وَسارَت وَرائي هاشِمٌ وَنِزارُ

If I wish, I humble the lands with hooves,

And Hashim and Nizar walked behind me.

وَعَمَّ السَماءَ النَقعُ حَتّى كَأَنَّهُ

دُخانٌ وَأَطرافُ الرِماحِ شَرارُ

And smoke covered the sky, as if

It were smoke, and the tips of the spears sparked.

وَبي كُلُّ خَوّارِ العِنانِ كَأَنَّهُ

إِذا لاحَ في نَقعِ الكَتيبَةِ نارُ

And I tamed every loose-reined horse as if

When it appeared in the army's smoke, it was fire.

وَقَمصُ حَديدٍ ضافِياتٌ ذُيولُها

لَها حَدَقٌ خُزرُ العُيونِ صِغارُ

And an iron fence with trailing hems,

Small, intense eyes have pupils.

وَبيضٌ كَأَنصافِ البُدورِ أَبيَّةٌ

إِذا اِمتَحَنَتهُنَّ السُيوفُ خِيارُ

And white like halves of full moons, honorable

When tested by swords the best.

وَكَم عاجِمٍ عودي تَكَسَّرَ نابُهُ

إِذا لانَ عيدانُ اللِئامِ وَخاروا

And how many foreign camels broke their canines

When the sticks of the vile bowed down and fled.