1. With a smooth stick above a dune
Of sweet slope, delightful embrace,

2. It sang just as it had begun singing
The leg of a free bird above a leg.

3. It spreads pearls in the ears spreading
Among organized pearls, desirous,

4. And we stole from the virgins a virgin
Whose mother was married without dowry

5. Then she appeared and was not divorced thrice
No free woman appears without divorce

6. Our religion in listening is urban
And in our drinking is Iraqi wine