نجحتI made progress بطولاتon tall she-camels (uncertain reading) كأنas though نجاءهاtheir swift passage
نجحت بطولات كأن نجاءها
هوىswooping flight القطاsandgrouse تعروvisit المناهلthe waterholes جونهاtheir dark ones
هوى القطا تعرو المناهل جونها
I advanced on tall she-camels [reading uncertain], as though their swift passage were
Her challenges succeeded as if her victory
the swooping flight of sandgrouse, whose dark ones visit the waterholes.
Was the love of she-cats watering the meadows decorating them
طوينthey emptied سقاءa waterskin الخمسthe five-day watering interval ثمتthen قلصتhastened
طوين سقاء الخمس ثمت قلصت
لوردfor watering المياهthe waters واستنبتand caused to grow قرونهاtheir horns
لورد المياه واستنبت قرونها
They emptied their five-day waterskin, then hastened
I folded the water skin of the fifth then constricted
to drink at the waters, and made their horns grow.
It to make the water gush and sprout its spouts
إذاwhen ماemphatic particle وردنthey reached الماءthe water فيin غلسdim darkness الضحىthe forenoon
إذا ما وردن الماء في غلس الضحى
بللنthey wetted أواديunclear in the supplied reading لبسcovering خزرsquinting يشينهاdisfigures them
بللن أوادي لبس خزر يشينها
When they reached the water in the forenoon’s dimness,
Whenever water flows in the calm of dawn
they wetted [unclear word], a covering marred by squinting.
It wets valleys wearing green veils
جعلنthey made حبابbubbles الماءthe water حينwhen حملنهthey carried it
جعلن حباب الماء حين حملنه
إلىinto غصصchoking gulps ثدunclear in the supplied reading ضاقwas too narrow عنهاfor them وتينهاtheir heart-artery
إلى غصص ثد ضاق عنها وتينها
They made the water’s bubbles, when they carried it,
It made water droplets when carrying them
into choking gulps [unclear word], which their heart-artery was too narrow to hold.
To thickets of bent branches too narrow for it and its sheaths
إذاwhen شئنthey wished أنthat يسمعنthey be heard والليلwhile the night واضعlaying down
إذا شئن أن يسمعن والليل واضع
هذاthis ليلةa night والريحand the wind تجريruns فنونهاits varied courses
هذا ليلة والريح تجري فنونها
When they wished to be heard, while night was laying down
If they want to be heard while the night is laying down
this for a night [wording unclear], and the wind ran its varied courses,
This is a night and the wind is blowing its melodies
تناومfeigned sleep سربa flock فيamong أناصيصهits clumps السناsenna
تناوم سرب في أناصيصه السنا
بقاياremnants أفانيafānī desert plants لصيفof summer حمراًred بطونهاtheir bellies
بقايا أفاني لصيف حمراً بطونها
a flock feigned sleep amid its clumps of senna,
A flock is sleeping in the fox's burrows
remnants of summer afānī plants, their bellies red.
Remnants of summers past, their bellies red
إذاwhen ملأتit filled منهاamong them قطاةa sandgrouse سقاءهاits waterskin
إذا ملأت منها قطاة سقاءها
فلاthen not تعكمwaits for الأخرىthe other ولاnor تستعينهاseeks its help
فلا تعكم الأخرى ولا تستعينها
When a sandgrouse among them filled its waterskin,
Whenever she-cats fill their water skins from it
it did not wait for the other, nor seek its help.
No other is deprived, none else is its aide
Claude 2 is inferred from the historical translator configuration. The original record does not identify its model.