كأنّه فَردٌ أقوتْ مراتِعُهُ

كأنّه فَردٌ أقوتْ مراتِعُهُ

بُرْقُ الجُنَيْنَةِ فالأخْرابُ فالدّورُ

بُرْقُ الجُنَيْنَةِ فالأخْرابُ فالدّورُ

As though he were a solitary wild bull whose grazing grounds have grown desolate—

As though he were a solitary pearl, his pastures overflowing,

the stony tracts of al-Junaynah, then al-Akhrab, then al-Dur.

The lightning of the small clouds, then the wilds, then the camps