1. An ear has warned us of grievous news,
And ears are only called so for hearing.

2. A sun and a moon lit up the morn and gloom
For Adam, and there is no doubt they are the two.

3. Neither has night unravelled its ropes,
Nor the dawn, and every rope is on a pillar they shake.

4. They eat yet face no table
With food, nor tasted any sweet honey.

5. The two newcomers never thought or knew,
Rather two birds perched on a branch they shook.

6. Two gazes of God unharmed and unhurt,
Ever of a measure they shook.

7. Rebuking us in their stillness
Like two unsheathed swords they brandished.

8. And Earth said, gently, O sons
Mount me and race over my beauty and wound me!

9. May God feed you from me then compensate me
For what I encountered - so, with bodies, feed me!

10. You walked me with feet and sandals
So I was entered - who opened me for those who wounded me?

11. How much heat and cold has passed in time
And blossomed on earth of flowers and spleenwort!

12. O two friends who sought relief from dearth
In whom you take refuge or from whom you seek protection?

13. Hippocrates, my life, and Galen were not spared
And truly they were supreme in medicine!