1. The trace of a house in ruins wiped away
By floods and winds sweeping unrestrained

2. So it changed the signs of the beloved
With members burying the soil in torrents

3. A land for bushes, grasshoppers, and whoever
Has a place with bushes and grasshoppers

4. He spends the night sharpened against it unseen
To my tent and the burrows of the gazelles a path

5. I did not fear among the living until I saw them
With skulls on the tops of the two barren tracts

6. So they appeared at Arwa as if it were
Among the leather, the singing slave girls, unkempt

7. A cavern wherever its sun declines
In a condition the sheep's horn in it a shade

8. It has from a soft leafiness that hides it
A pasture grazed at dawn and dusk

9. And how many Arwa killed without a spear belonging to it
Yet Arwa is for the relief of men, a slayer

10. If a crying time had cried, I would have cried it
But the worst of singing slave girls is unending

11. I have lingered as if drinking Babylonian
Stagnant fever in the bones pervading

12. The stupor of a young Philistine woman tended it
From the exultation, from the length of parting, a friend

13. They refused to rest when their day kindled
And the thickets of gazelles had been made to rest

14. The she-lizards of noon basked
While they were upon their limbs ungainly

15. They met an evening that caused them to disappear
Crazed from the slim waisted and stirred

16. I was sound of heart until I was struck
By the brilliant, shining, stare of a gazelle

17. Of the swaying, sliding, oh now, and she
On his declivity or union is heedless

18. And they bar me from their times
While they are a death wish for men, a marauder

19. For a man will not abstain from going astray
If his soul desires it, obscure