أَلَم تَسأَلِ العُيّافَ إِن كُنتَ صادِقاً

غَداةَ اللِوى ما أَنبَأَتكَ البَوارِحُ

Did you not ask the augur, if you were truthful,

The morning after the encampment, what the organs of perception told you

بِسُرعِ الفِراقِ إِذ تَوَلَّت حُمولُها

كَما يَستَقِلُّ الخَيبَرِيُّ الدَوالِحُ

About the quickness of departure when their burdens were taken away

As the lizard catcher abandons the sand dunes

أَثاثٌ أَعاليهِ رَواءٌ أُصولُهُ

سَقاهُ بِماءِ البِئرِ غَربٌ وَناضِحُ

Furnishings whose peaks are pastureland, its roots

Watered by the well’s water, a westerly rain cloud pouring down

إِذا ذُقتَ فاها قُلتَ طَعمَ مُدامَةٍ

بِنُطفَةِ جَونٍ سالَ مِنهُ الأَباطِحُ

If you taste its mouth you would say the taste of matured wine

With the seminal fluid of an embryo flowing from it are runnels

غَريضٍ جَرَت فيهِ الصَبا بَينَ مُنحَنىً

وَأَغياضِ سِدرٍ بَينَهُنَّ مَراوِحُ

A winding channel into which the youths flowed between undulating terrain

And citron trees, between them are fans