يريد وثاق ناقتي ويعيبها — أبو الأسود الدؤلي

Wathaq wants my she-camel, all while finding fault with her;

Wathaq ibn Jabir tries to trick me out of her.

So I said, “Know, Wathaq, that she is

a protected preserve, barred to you till the last of the nights to come.

You saw that she was great-humped, powerful, and hardy—

one of those that turn their heads at the noontide’s fiercest heat.

Then you tried to deceive me—but conjectures can lie;

and how many have hoped to dupe me, only to fail!”