1. أتاني من الأنباءِ أن مُجاشعاً

    وآلَ فُقَيم والكَراديسَ اصفقوا

    News reached me that Mujāshiʿ

    and the house of Fuqaym and the battalions had joined forces.

  2. وقالوا شَريسٌ قلتُ يكفي شريسكُم

    سنان كنبراس النهامي مُفَتّق

    And they said, “Sharīs!” I said, “Enough for your Sharīs is

    a broad-bladed spearhead, like the monk’s lamp,

  3. نَمتهُ العَصَل ثم استمرَّ كأنه

    شِهابٌ بكفّي قابسٍ يتحرّق

    raised aloft by stout shafts; then it sped on, as though

    a firebrand blazing in a fire-seeker’s two hands.”