1. أَلا هَل أَتاها وَالأَحاديثُ جَمَّةَ

    مُغَلغَةً أَبناءَ جَيشِ اللَهازِمِ

    Ah, has it reached her—though tales abound—

    A far-traveling message, O sons of the Lahāzim army?

  2. فَلَستُ بِوَّقافٍ إِذا الخَيلُ أَحجَمَت

    وَلَستُ بِكَذّابٍ كَقَيسِ بنِ عاصِمِ

    For I do not hang back when the horses recoil,

    And I am no habitual liar like Qays son of ʿĀṣim.

  3. تُخَيِّرُ مَن لاقَيت أَن قَد هَزَمتَهُم

    وَلَم تَدرِ ما سيماهُمُ لا وَعائِمِ

    You [tell] whomever you meet that you have defeated them,

    Yet you did not know their distinguishing marks—no, by ʿĀʾim!

  4. بَلِ الفارِس الطائي فَضَّ جُموعَهُم

    وَمَكَّةَ وَالبَيتِ الَّذي عِندَ هاشِمِ

    Rather, the Ṭāʾī horseman scattered their forces,

    By Mecca and the House that is with Hāshim!

  5. إِذا ما دَعوا عِجلاً عَجَلنا عَلَيهِم

    بِمَأثورَةٍ تَشفي صُداعَ الجَماجِمِ

    Whenever they summoned ʿIjl, we rushed upon them

    With patterned steel that cures the skulls’ headache.