1. You have a car to drive,
The talk of the neighbor and neighbor's wife,

2. The Overland forewarns you
As the consul sets up a fuss,

3. Like Charlotte's car
Mighty on the road,

4. When she moves it tilts
Collapsing on both sides,

5. And it sometimes grieves
Walking alone sadly,

6. No eye satisfies it
With spewing gasoline,

7. Nor is it sated with oil
Though the rats swarm over it,

8. It sees the street in panic
When it appears from the alley,

9. And boys screaming
As if they have seen a plane,

10. With a horn in its front
And drums in the rear,

11. It may walk when it wishes
And turns back at its own pace,

12. God has ordained the roads
To make it a house,

13. To spend the day in
And meet the night however late,

14. The life of horses, O Maxey
Is like the deceitful world,

15. Time has changed you
From rise to set,

16. So patience, O boy of horses
The soul of the free is patient,

17. Is Mehjoob who rightly
Asked about you with pottery,

18. And who sold the piebald horse
With the ragged Overland?

19. And did not know its merit
Nor appreciated its traces,

20. He chose barren land for you
While you wouldn't choose it,

21. So ask him what barren land is
Maybe he tells you its news,

22. As if you didn't carry the flag
On the day of panic and fighters,

23. And didn't ride unto dread
And charge at the cave,

24. And didn't care for my wounds
Of the young insistent lookers,

25. So beaten with machine guns
And defeated with traitors,

26. No, by God, you didn't trouble
Mehjoob nor the wilderness,

27. So you don't know alfalfa
Nor recognize clover,

28. You may get satisfied with flakes
When you regret fumigators,

29. And get drunk from lies
On the freezer's shelf,

30. And you may get filled, O son of night,
From the singing of a guitar,

31. May God who guided
Yusuf to a car,

32. There was a great world behind them
For him on earth,

33. Make you a gentle groom
And son of a gentle groomer,

34. For luck is fickle
And the world a spinner.