Ode CXXI: The tent-traces in al-Jaunani refuse to

The tent-traces in al-Jaunani refuse to show signs of change, although they have added a whole year to the year that had sped before ;

And they have gotten in exchange for Laila, in the place where once she dwelt, wild kine of the wide Deserts, that feed in ad-Dakhul and Haumal :

Variegated are they with patches and spots, with dark-brown cheeks, looking as though they were clad in a delicate white shift, long-skirted, of Sabur.

[Their horns] show forth as though armies had stuck in the ground, in the place where they halted in the morning, spears pointing upwards, some straight, some stubbornly crooked.

There is not a tribe than which we are not better in discipline — better both in the remnants that remain and the fathers of old,

Longer in our stand in the place of danger in defence of all dear to us, or more settled in calm temper when the fresh-springing pasture moves men to folly—

[None] that has more lords and sons of lords than we, or is more capable than we of accomplishing what we promise :

Heroes lift us up among ancient heights, where is the abiding-place of glory that refuses to depart therefrom :

Defenders through whom on the morning of alarm our pasturing-camels are safe, what time the herds rushing down to water fall suddenly upon the weak, the abject :

Shining blades, hard smiters in the mellay of battle, what time the straitened fighter calls loudly for help, both generally on all his friends and specially naming this one or that.

And we by our victory have set the Mother of Hajib answering with her cries the band of wailing women, bereaved of their husbands, awake all the night with grief.

And to the host of the sons of Ghanm, on the morning of Hubalah, we gave to drink, as the sun's rays shot forth, a draught of sudden death :

And 'Udhrah— War has pressed them down with her breast, and on Kalb she has cast the weight of her neck and body.