1. The croaking of the raven foretold the withering of the branches,
And a group interpreted it as portending calamities.

2. They anxiously examined the neck of the enemy
And saw burns that made their weeping eyes overflow.

3. They saw a whiteness in parts of an old wound
That was not present in bygone times.

4. Like thick fog its lights massed together
Intending for the buds to pluck it.

5. And she says, her saying coming from her grief:
“This was not in the calculations of the soothsayer.

6. Where is youth and where is what it walks with
In the open desert between aiding friend and amplifying echo?"

7. "What is it to you, censurer, about a gazelle
Whose limbs passionately quiver with love?”

8. “Let your heart be empty of love talk
And let your closed eyes be devoid of dreams.”

9. “Many a night I walked with lovely Mudari lasses
Until dawn’s first light burst into morn.”

10. “In the darkness of the twisted path, disguised,
Where no late night walker can find his way.”

11. “My night visitor has no treachery in his nature,
No late-coming lover deprived of a brimming cup.”

12. “As if the feathers of the ostrich in the wilderness
Were a wind coloring the horizons with hues.”

13. “And if you look closely you see no trace in its dust
Other than that left by a raging gust.”

14. “Too proud for anything base,
Uncaring of degraded status.”

15. “You see him switch sandals whenever
The hissing serpent sheds its old skin.”

16. “A people who plunge into the unknown toward demise
Like the coward's plunging recklessly into fears.”

17. “They take no wealth but by the sword
That drips with blood or by a piercing blade.”

18. “And if you see their stance in the face of adversity
Their hearts seem to know no fear.”

19. “You see them listening intently on each momentous day
To the screams of the terrified.”

20. “They dragged the train of glory when you cowered,
With pride dragging trains and hems.”

21. “And they turned upon the curs of time in their distress
With odes to the refugee that were familiar.”

22. “Hands that overflow with generosity
So their giving proliferates like trains.”

23. “A gushing kindness that exceeds pretense and deception,
Unlike the cloying overtures of the obsequious.”

24. “And I see the generous as bold as the valiant
On a day of shared valor and reciprocal thrust.”

25. “Those who warn me of the evil of these times
Are unaware that I am a critic of imposters.”

26. “I used to censure every dissenter among them
But now I censure all who conform.”

27. “And when doubts converge and agree,
I turn away from the times and all they contain.”

28. “And when I consider the differing strokes of its calamities,
I turn to the differing wonders and subtleties.”

29. “It reclaims gifts like a fault-finding questioner
After freely giving beyond what is expected.”

30. “O spring of evil, what disasters have befallen
The inhabitants of the world because of you!”

31. “Your lightning never lacked a critic
And the mirage of your lands a coveting onlooker.”

32. “The wreckage of your provision, though it is serious,
Is for each loving day a clown.”

33. “How many sorrows in your changes were joined together
After being rid of the critic of their author!”

34. “A hand that stretches out its arm in affliction
And grasps but a fragment offered by the fleeing refugee.”

35. “It does not safeguard those who built
And furnished with soft carpets and luxurious cushions.”

36. “And I was foolish because I freely gave you
My heart, though I knew we were incompatible.”