1. صاح أيري ورمحه فوق خصيي

    ه ولا رمح ضمرة بن هلال

    My cock cried out, its spear above its balls—

    not even Ḍamra ibn Hilāl’s spear could match it!

  2. قربا مربط النعامة مني

    لقحت حرب وائلٍ عن حيال

    Bring al-Naʿāma’s tethering-place close to me;

    the war of Wāʾil has conceived after barrenness.

  3. ثم أهوى بطعنةٍ بات منها

    يرم ستي ذاك الشقي بحال

    Then it lunged with a thrust that left, all night,

    my arse—that wretched thing—swelling in a sorry state.

  4. فتولى يقول وهو طعينٌ

    دمه مع خراه مثل البزال

    Then it turned away, wounded, saying,

    its blood and shit flowing as from a spigot:

  5. لم أكن من جناتها علم الل

    ه وإني بحرها اليوم صالي

    “I was not among its instigators—God knows—

    and yet today I burn in its heat.”