1. He stretched the rope of his tent and spread out its sides,
Like the stars spread over the evening horizons.

2. My boy let down his bucket, hoping to draw with it
Some water to quench the thirsty heart of a worried man.

3. It came back covered with spider webs, as if
It were the garment of a house left hanging on a pole.

4. So he twisted the rope and threw it over a saddle blanket
And the side of a gently-swaying portable house.