1. I came to you as a maternal uncle and a cousin,
And I was not a people whose lineage intertwined with yours.

2. So renew family ties between us that kinship has severed,
For maintaining family bonds is best and closest.

3. And do not make me like one who has no kinship with you,
Nor ancestry connecting us.

4. I gaze longingly at the whole tribe,
So you lean towards your Master, most bent over and hunched.