وَخِيلَت حِراءٌ مِن رَبيعٍ وَصَيِّفٍ

وَخِيلَت حِراءٌ مِن رَبيعٍ وَصَيِّفٍ

نَعامَةَ رَملٍ وافِراً وَمُقَرنَصا

نَعامَةَ رَملٍ وافِراً وَمُقَرنَصا

And Ḥirāʾ seemed, after spring and summer rains,

A desert imagination of abundant spring and summer

An ostrich of the sands, full-plumed and moulting.

An ostrich of sand, horned and plentiful