1. The mighty became lowly and the lowly one,
Has might and the people's branches became tails.

2. I am searching until it becomes clear to me,
When you were to the people absolute lords.

3. They surpassed in your ascent, then look and ask
About us and about you, the old genealogist.

4. So he will laugh or get used to the mention -
Oh misery of fate for the fickle human!

5. A people who, when they wagered their glory, placed
Beneath the saddlecloth, for the outrun, a robe.

6. Your young men are the evilest young men I taught
Briefness, tallness, honor, and accounts.

7. And your elders are the evilest elders, reporting -
And their evil, when away, is grievous in case.

8. The early ones bequeath by words the later ones -
And evil is he who tasted youth's sap.

9. If you subdue us a little in your emirates,
You have subdued the sons of Zarqa for epochs.

10. A people who see the sons of the free as superfluous -
They were to them abject slaves and booty.