1. Ask the abodes about them, how the abodes yearned for them after they had gone,
They were intimate with the abodes when they traveled, and the abodes cried when they left,

2. Did not the staff of the abodes once in their hands become bent?
So those are the dear brothers in the eyes of the beholder.

3. Why then did the abodes not approach them longing,
Nor in them flare up the fires of ardor?