تَخَوَّفَ السَّيْرُ مِنْهَا تامِكاً قَرِداً

تَخَوَّفَ السَّيْرُ مِنْهَا تامِكاً قَرِداً

كمَا تَخَوَّفَ عُودَ النَّبْعَةِ السَّفَنُ

كمَا تَخَوَّفَ عُودَ النَّبْعَةِ السَّفَنُ

Travel wore away her lofty, matted-haired hump,

The journey feared her completely, like a monkey

As the rasp wears away the wood of the nabʿ tree.

As the ships feared the bending branch of the spring