1. أَواقِدُ لَم أَغرُركَ في أَمرِ واقِدٍ

    فَهَل تَنتَهي عَنّي وَلَستَ بِجاهِلِ

    O Waqid, I did not deceive you in the matter of Waqid.

    Will you then leave me be, for you are no fool?

  2. أَواقِدُ لا آلوكَ إِلّا مُهَنَّداً

    وَجِلدَ أَبي عِجلٍ وَثيقِ القَبائِلِ

    O Waqid, I shall offer you nothing but an Indian-forged sword

    and the hide of a calf’s sire, with firmly knit skull plates.

  3. غَذاهُ مِنَ السِرَّينِ أَو بَطنِ حَليَةٍ

    فُروعُ الأَباءِ في عَميمِ السَوائِلِ

    He was nourished, from al-Sirrayn or Halyah’s valley floor,

    by reed shoots amid abundant watercourses.

  4. مِشَبُّ إِذا الثيرانُ صَدَّت طَريقَهُ

    تَصَدَّعنَ عَنهُ دامِياتِ الشَواكِلِ

    A full-grown bull: when the bulls block his path,

    they scatter away from him, their flanks bleeding.

  5. يَظَلُّ عَلى البَرزِ اليَفاعِ كَأَنَّهُ

    طِرافٌ رَسَت أَوتادُهُ عِندَ نازِلِ

    He spends the day on the open high ground, as though he were

    a leather tent, its stakes firmly planted beside a camper.