Ode LX: May all that I have amassed

May all that I have amassed of substance be a sacrifice for my people, when War wraps together tribes with tribes !

What time Madhhij were told of us — and falsely were they told ! — that no defender would stand forth to protect our honour.

Our war-mill whirled but a little : then there fell on our foes a crushing blow wherefrom the great owls screech without ceasing.

Day-long the hyaenas of Mujairat visit them as they lie, and they give them to eat of their flesh — what a feasting !

They advanced towards us with their heads uplifted high in air, and we had prepared for them a Day that seemed as though it were days :

So that Hudhunnah — we left not a single hyaena there who had not for herself a carcase, the mangled remnants of a mighty chief.

All day long [War] crushed down the Sons of Ka'b with her breast, and the Day of the Sons of Nahd bethought itself of turning to darkness.