1. A house, the guide says: Alas for Umm House of Al-Huthaqi, house!
When we set up our tent there

2. We struck up a dialogue and bought a donkey,
And the oppressed one slept where the cat slept -

3. You hear him meowing at night,
Shepherds came upon us, they said: We saw a beautiful woman,

4. We spent the night naked by our tent poles,
Taking off her veil's tassels,

5. We spent the night bridling him with the halter,
Wanting to hunt or raid with him,

6. When a cooking pot shone for us,
And a thread of dawn's light appeared,

7. We walked him briskly like bangles of halouh,
Silently milking him,

8. Prancing, competing with us in leading,
You'd think, from his spirit in him, he winged,

9. A mount, sublime hilted, a garment, when the expert looked at it, a brocade,
When the boy mounted his back,

10. And calmed him from bucking him off,
And was let loose like an Arabian mare

11. In the trail of a flock, he sped fast as an eagle,
He hunted for us Kahlan of curved eyebrow, one mature, the other a gazelle,

12. And challenged three, so the spear points
Either pierced or broke,

13. Is any man you think a man?
A fire kindled in the night, fire!