1. A supple, saffron yellow she-camel,
was given me as a gift--her price as well as her color--by Hazwar.

2. She grew so fat that she was about to become an ostrich,
and became so full that her udder was about to burst.

3. She began to give freely of her milk, pouring forth abundantly,
the syrup over the door of the almond in her flowed.

4. How good was the climate there, with its dripping rainclouds,
and how good the land as the spray continued to pour!

5. How lovely it was above the bowls and her daughter before her,
with her bleating, bubbling over with joy!

6. We kept peeling the skin back from her flesh
as if scraping butter from a churn.

7. She had been preceded by unweaned young she-camels
as if the meadows were exporting the like of them.

8. They were all perfectly delineated, embroidered
with white and dark interwoven.

9. Then there came stewpots after that, delicious,
with which the gluttons were delighted and the throat satisfied.

10. The cheeks smiled at the bowls of seasoned meat above them,
and tears from the oil were squeezed from the eyes.

11. From the wealth of one with abundant merit it seemed
as if the spring floods of the Euphrates were bursting forth,

12. Who gives much but esteems his plenty as little,
while the little he has given by another seems abundant.

13. He is a sun, right and left flanked by a moon,
the full moon of the sky with Venus that shines brightest.

14. God requite them--three brothers
of fair looks and refined speech.