1. Does Marwan the prince send a message
That I should come to him? Then I am misguided,

2. I have no disobedience or distant house,
But I fear Marwan so I wander.

3. I will blame the religious for what makes them doubt,
And follow my reason wherever it first led me.

4. Or I will join the doe in the land of Saha,
Or the tall mountains between Ghawl and Ghulghul.

5. And in the doe’s plain or in ‘Amaiyah,
Or Udhmah, I cower from the fear of death.

6. And I have a friend in the cave who guides a friend;
He is beautiful but for the sores that mark him.

7. When we meet, most of our talk
Is gestures and glances, like the blinking lizard.

8. The flat land offered us two prey according to our hopes;
Each of us takes a share and food.

9. And I surpass him in preparing supplies. I
Remove harm from him and he does not complain.

10. And we shared little in the land of Madilla;
It was our law, whichever of us came first.

11. Each of us is an enemy who, if he saw
His foe afflicted, would be kind to him.