Sol 6.1

  1. وَخَرقٍ كَأَنضاءِ القَميصِ دَوِيَّةٍ

    مَخوفٍ رَداهُ ما يُقيمُ بِهِ رَكبُ

    And a desolate wilderness, like the worn tatters of a shirt,

    whose deadly peril is feared, where no band of riders stays,

  2. قَطَعتَ بِمِجذامِ الرَواحِ كَأَنَّها

    إِذا حُطَّ عَنها كورُها جَمَلٌ صَعبُ

    you crossed on a she-camel swift in travel, as though she,

    when her saddle is taken off, were an unruly male camel.

  3. يُعاتِبُها في بَعضِ ما أَذنَبَت لَهُ

    فَيَضرِبُها حيناً وَلَيسَ لَها ذَنبُ

    He reproaches her for some wrong she has done him,

    then strikes her at times, though she is blameless.

  4. وَقَد جَعَلَت في نَفسِها أَن تَخافَهُ

    وَلَيسَ لَها مِنهُ سَلامٌ وَلا حَربُ

    And she has made up her mind to fear him,

    and from him she has neither peace nor war.

  5. فَطِرتَ بِها حَتّى إِذا اِشتَدَّ ظِمؤُها

    وَحُبَّ إِلى القَومِ الإِناخَةُ وَالشُربُ

    So you flew along on her until, when her thirst grew fierce,

    and the company longed to make the camels kneel and drink,

  6. أَنَختَ إِلى مَظلومَةٍ غَيرِ مَسكِنٍ

    حَوامِلُها عوجٌ وَأَفنانُها رَطبُ

    you made her kneel beside an ill-placed tree, not at a dwelling,

    its supporting boughs crooked and its branches fresh and moist.

  7. فَناطَ إِلَيها سَيفَهُ وَرِدائَهُ

    وَجاءَ إِلى أَفياءِ ما عَلَّقَ الرَكبُ

    Then he hung his sword and cloak on 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

    Then 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,

    with a long bridle-strap along his cheek, his breast broad.