1. A visitor whom seclusion endeared
Long in defiance of fate he persevered

2. An era of barrenness baring its fangs assailed him
And the bowels of desolation enveloped him

3. The march of time wore him down steadily
And his bounty and virtue started to drain

4. He met the onslaught head-on staunchly
A woeful thunderer in desolate refrain

5. With him they flowed bounteously his rains
A scent whose wafting was but profuse pains

6. Submissively to it mountains bowed in chains
Astride its spate youth and morn rides

7. Until integrated fully its accessories
And on earth its dominance steadies

8. And upon the dunes its edifices studies
And through its expanse its annex spreads

9. And its flow and form in concord treads
And its disarray confounds whilst harmony it sheds

10. As though on clouds its pillars were bedded
Evil’s pillar, crags cleaved and shredded

11. Elucidated its writ on earth ́s face unfaded
And with its waters its valleys glittered

12. And with its light its plains were fitted
As though when unveiled its amazing vista

13. Absent it we no longer can persist
An old man whom youth revisited