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The segment evokes the lofty mountain refuge available to the speaker’s confederates, then exalts his tribe’s martial disposition and willingness to die in battle and avenge the fallen.

6 We have a mountain where those we shelter settle down; impregnable, it turns away the eye, tired from looking.
7 Its trunk anchors underneath the soil; a branch lifts it to the stars. It’s not got hold of; it is towering.
8 We’re a people who don’t consider killing a disgrace the way that ^Amir and Salūl have thought it.
9 Love of death advances for us our final moment; their final moment loathes it, therefore is drawn out.
10 No sayyid of ours dies a death of his nose, nor was the blood of any of us made to go for nought, like dew, where he lay dead.
11 Our souls flow out on sword-blade edge, and nowhere but on sword-blade edge do they flow out.

Notes
(Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from Arberry.)
6 tired from looking: The mountain is so lofty it defies the eye’s attempt to take it in. Arberry notes the “mountain” may be taken metaphorically, or “as referring to the mountain-fortress of al-Ablaq (al-Fard), the famous redoubt of al-Samau’al.”
8 don’t consider killing: i.e., being killed. “[^Amir and Salūl] are the names of rival tribes…”
9 love of death, etc.: “Sc. our warriors die young, those of our rivals live on into old age.”
10 dies a death of his nose: i.e., dies a natural death in which life exits with a last breath. The warrior’s life was considered to exit through his bleeding wounds, as verse 11 makes explicit. Nor was the blood, etc.: i.e., our slain have always been avenged.
11 “The commentator al-Tibrīzī explains the second half of this verse as excluding death by the dishonourable instruments of sticks and staves and the like.”

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