1. Hope without its nearest cloud,
And a promise like the mirage's gleam,

2. And dallying that makes patience fail regarding it,
And a delay for which no reckoning can avail,

3. And a time wherein the servants had mastery therein,
And on its sides the wolves were prowling free,

4. And days that have gone from all good lacking,
And a world which the dogs have shared among them,

5. Dogs, were you to ask them dust,
They would say "With us dust has failed and ceased."

6. He who spoke evil of them is chastised,
And though he speak good thereof no reward has he.