أَعَيَّرتُموني أَنَّ أُمّي تَريعَةٌ

أَعَيَّرتُموني أَنَّ أُمّي تَريعَةٌ

وَهَل يُنجِبَن في القَومِ غَيرُ التَرائِعِ

وَهَل يُنجِبَن في القَومِ غَيرُ التَرائِعِ

Have you reproached me because my mother is a bold, spirited woman?

You mocked me that my mother is an ignorant woman

And do any but spirited women bear noble offspring among the tribe?

And do the eminent in a tribe give birth other than to ignorant ones?

وَما طالِبُ الأَوتارِ إِلّا اِبنُ حُرَّةٍ

وَما طالِبُ الأَوتارِ إِلّا اِبنُ حُرَّةٍ

طَويلُ نَجادِ السَيفِ عاري الأَشاجِعِ

طَويلُ نَجادِ السَيفِ عاري الأَشاجِعِ

And none seeks vengeance for blood-debts but the son of a freeborn woman,

And the seeker of strings is none other than the son of a free woman

His sword-baldric long, his knuckles bare.

Tall, of high lineage by the sword, bare of forelocks