لِلَّهِ بِالحَدباءِ عَيشي فَكَم

لِلَّهِ بِالحَدباءِ عَيشي فَكَم

وَرَدتُ مِن عَينٍ بِها جارِيَه

وَرَدتُ مِن عَينٍ بِها جارِيَه

Ah, what a life was mine in al-Ḥadbāʾ! How often

How splendid was my life in al-Hadba—for how often

I came to drink from a spring whose waters flowed;

I came to drink from a flowing spring there!

وَكَم تَقَنَّصتُ بِها جُؤذُراً

وَكَم تَقَنَّصتُ بِها جُؤذُراً

وَرُدتُ مِن عَينٍ بِها جارِيَه

وَرُدتُ مِن عَينٍ بِها جارِيَه

And how often I hunted a young gazelle there,

And how many an oryx calf I hunted there,

And was turned away by the eye of a maiden there.

And sought a slave girl from a notable there!