مِكَرٍّ مِفَرٍّ مُقْبِلٍ مُدْبِرٍ مَعًا
كَجُلْمُودِ صَخْرٍ حَطَّهُ السَّيْلُ مِنْ عَلِ
Attacker, retreater, advancing, withdrawing, all at once
Like a boulder the flood has hurled from on high
المصدر · Source: Mu'allaqa, line 53. A.J. Arberry, The Seven Odes (1957)