عَلَى مِثْلِهَا أَمْضِي إِذَا قَالَ صَاحِبِي
أَلَا لَيْتَنِي أَفْدِيكَ مِنْهَا وَأَفْتَدِي
Meaning: I travel on such a mount until my companion exclaims that he wishes he could ransom or rescue the poet from the ordeal, and free himself from its hardship as well.
ʿAlā mithlihā amḍī stresses the poet’s practice of undertaking demanding journeys on this kind of she-camel. The companion’s alā laytanī is a cry of intense wishing. The related verbs afdīka and aftadī reinforce the notion of seeking deliverance from an exhausting experience.