1. والبس لتلك ثياب كلِّ دنّةٍ

    سوداً وأحيِ إلى الشميط الأبلقِ

    And for that, put on the robes of every crow,

    black, and hasten toward the mottled, piebald dawn,

  2. بالعيشجور كأنني وقتودها

    بالسهب فوق سراة أزعر نقنق

    on the sturdy she-camel, as though I and her saddle-bows

    were, in the open plain, upon a sparsely feathered male ostrich’s back,

  3. أو فوق طاوية الحشا رملية

    إن تَدنُ من فَنَن الألاءَة تَعلُقِ

    or upon a lean-bellied, sand-dwelling female ostrich:

    if she nears a branch of the alāʾa tree, she browses on it.