سَيَمنَعُني مِن أَن أُسامَ دَنِيَّةً

سَيَمنَعُني مِن أَن أُسامَ دَنِيَّةً

أَبي وَشَليلي وَالضَبيحُ وَمَعشَري

أَبي وَشَليلي وَالضَبيحُ وَمَعشَري

I shall be kept from being subjected to humiliation

My father and my shabby clothes and the morning light

By my father, my coat of mail, al-Dabih, and my clan,

And my tribesmen will restrain me from submitting to baseness

وَأَبيَضُ مَصقولٌ أُجِدَّ جِلاؤُهُ

وَأَبيَضُ مَصقولٌ أُجِدَّ جِلاؤُهُ

وُرُكِّبَ في لَدنِ المَهَزَّةِ أَسمَرِ

وُرُكِّبَ في لَدنِ المَهَزَّةِ أَسمَرِ

And a gleaming, polished spearhead, its polish renewed,

A polished white sword whose glint I whet

And mounted in a supple, swaying brown shaft.

Was mounted in the scabbard of a dark-skinned warrior