1. Words came to me that I was not angered by
Though he who spoke them meant to provoke my ire

2. A persistent slanderer, his neck thrust forward
As if a scabby mangy dog set on by mongrels

3. Of a band whose eyes were blackened with villainy
Fettered knaves, evil men of no repute

4. The speech of a man who provoked a people against themselves
Like unwanted beads in a worthless string

5. Why did you not ask, may God guide you, about my lineage
When my sheep went to pasture before the fuel gatherers

6. I share out my fate while it is still on display
Since each fate is a bride in her wedding clothes

7. As if she were an Indian, her charms and her allure
When we met on the trampled remains of the encampment

8. A woman of mine, the spring came forth through her
Onto the lightnings that looked to burst into greenery