وَلمّا رأَت أَن حالَ بَيني وَبَينَها

وَلمّا رأَت أَن حالَ بَيني وَبَينَها

عداةٌ وأوباشٌ مِنَ الحَيِّ حُضَّرُ

عداةٌ وأوباشٌ مِنَ الحَيِّ حُضَّرُ

And when she saw that between me and her had come

When she saw that enemies and villains from the neighborhood

enemies and rabble of the tribe, present there,

Had come between us, separating her from me,

ثَنَت عُنُقاً لَم تَثنِها جَيدَ ريَّةٌ

ثَنَت عُنُقاً لَم تَثنِها جَيدَ ريَّةٌ

عَضادٌ ولا مكنوزَةُ اللَحمِ ضُمزَرُ

عَضادٌ ولا مكنوزَةُ اللَحمِ ضُمزَرُ

she turned a neck no short, stout woman could turn—

She bowed her neck, which no delicate, slender-necked gazelle

one thick of arm—nor a stocky woman with flesh packed tight.

Had ever bent, neither the fleshy-necked ostrich hen.