1. Many a camp in the valley of camps
Its pillars sharp swords,

2. Fluttering beneath dense canopy
Like doves huddled in nests.

3. Wrapped in a cloak over passion bent
They rose early for the familiar hunt

4. With your smooth cheek and soft mantle
Bright are their armors of linked mail

5. A knight we singled out from thousands
Supported by armies of lances

6. Baring rows of daggers
Who guaranteed safety to guests

7. You see him before the fierce onslaught
His victory soaked in blood

8. His embrace to the desperate refugee
An embrace neither righteous nor kind

9. Finding comfort under the veil of mail
Laughing at the shed tears of cattle driven away

10. A herd of gazelles like polished pearls
Surrendered by the lover to the summer

11. To graze in the bounty of autumn
Her cheek rosy with the flush of youth

12. Stretching like the muscular neck at work
And pouring in abundance quenching and sweet

13. Doubtful between throat and necklace
Like the even teeth of a comb

14. Relentless, tiring neither horse nor man
Taking a tyrant, bold and unruly

15. And left unchecked by rebuke
On a day of dearth with starving winds

16. Descending like a bursting cloud
Or like his frothing, foaming whiteness

17. From his ears and the smooth rock
As a necklace comes undone and scatters

18. For we live in his countryside
And blessing, gentle and plentiful

19. Between dried meat and fresh milk
The blessing of a merciful and kind Lord