1. If you were a guest of the Ukbarites, you would not taste
Food, nor drink cool water

2. And you would spend the night like a wolf in barren land
Twisting and turning, wailing and wandering alone

3. And if you were their neighbor, you would spend the night hungry
And if you spent the night envied among them, you would spend it alone

4. The slaves of the staff never attained virtue
And in truth I did not see among them one glorious