Sol 6.1

  1. َخَرقٍ كَأَنضاءِ القَميصِ دَوِيَّةٍ

    مَخوفٍ رَداهُ ما يُقيمُ بِهِ رَكبُ

    A wasteland like the tatters of a shirt, desolate,

    its deadly peril feared, where no caravan stays,

  2. قَطَعتَ بِمِجذامِ الرَواحِ كَأَنَّها

    إِذا حُطَّ عَنها كورُها جَمَلٌ صَعبُ

    you crossed on a swift-travelling she-camel, as though she,

    when her saddle was taken off, were an unruly bull camel.

  3. يُعاتِبُها في بَعضِ ما أَذنَبَت لَهُ

    فَيَضرِبُها حيناً وَلَيسَ لَها ذَنبُ

    He rebukes her for some wrong she has done him,

    then beats her at times, though she has done no wrong.

  4. وَقَد جَعَلَت في نَفسِها أَن تَخافَهُ

    وَلَيسَ لَها مِنهُ سَلامٌ وَلا حَربُ

    And she has resolved within herself to fear him,

    yet from him she has neither peace nor war.

  5. فَطِرتَ بِها حَتّى إِذا اِشتَدَّ ظِمؤُها

    وَحُبَّ إِلى القَومِ الإِناخَةُ وَالشُربُ

    So you sped on her until, when her thirst grew fierce,

    and the men longed to halt their camels and drink,

  6. أَنَختَ إِلى مَظلومَةٍ غَيرِ مَسكِنٍ

    حَوامِلُها عوجٌ وَأَفنانُها رَطبُ

    you made her kneel beside a wronged tree, no dwelling,

    its supporting limbs crooked and its boughs fresh.

  7. فَناطَ إِلَيها سَيفَهُ وَرِدائَهُ

    وَجاءَ إِلى أَفياءِ ما عَلَّقَ الرَكبُ

    Then he hung his sword and cloak upon it,

    and came into the shade of what the riders had hung up.

  8. فَأَغفى قَليلاً ثُمَّ طارَ بِرَحلِها

    لِيَكسَبَ مَجداً أَو يَحورَ لَها نَهبُ

    He dozed a little, then flew off in her saddle,

    to win glory, or for plunder to return to her.

  9. فَثارَت تُباري أَعوَجِيّاً مُصَدَّراً

    طَويلَ عِذارِ الخَدِّ جُؤجُؤُهُ رَحبُ

    Then she sprang up, racing a broad-chested Aʿwajī steed,

    his cheek-strap long, his breast broad.