1. She said I overslept, pray
As the suns have emerged with rays

2. I said you’re confused, why should I pray
When I’m adorned with my robes today

3. Should I pray for possessions or loss?
For furnishings threatened and household dross?

4. For polished servants tell me true
Or for gentle maidens fleet and shrewd?

5. For horses, steeds marked and tamed?
For lovely nymphs of culture famed?

6. The Delamite prays and Shirmardu
Lords of estates and all they subdue

7. With Moussa and his man Badaa
And Shashankir of orders obeyed

8. Shasbala and Kharwad together
And lords of meadows and calves they tether

9. If the minister prays it’s no matter
As the minister drinks to chatter

10. They’re a gang with prayers writ
Not for the poor with no benefit