1. أحاذِرُ أَن أجيئَكَ ثُمَّ تَحبُو

    حِباءَ أَبيكَ يَومَ صُنَيبِعاتِ

    I fear that I might come to you, and you then bestow

    the gift your father gave on the day of Ṣunaybiʿāt.

  2. وَكانَت غَدرَةً شَنعاءَ تَهفُو

    تَقَلَّدَها أَبوكَ إِلى المَماتِ

    And it was a heinous treachery, fluttering—

    your father wore it about his neck until death.

  3. تَتابع سَبعة كانوا لِأُمٍّ

    كَأَحراجِ النعامِ الحائِراتِ

    Seven, all born of one mother, followed one another,

    like flocks of bewildered ostriches.