1. I said to eminent leaders,
O leaders, their ends are exalted,

2. The effeminate have come to ravish you,
And people's scoffing their minds.

3. Why do I see your scoffers as boys,
Like houris whose chastity was guarded?

4. Feminized in creation, they have eyes
Whose coquetry is manifest and their winking.

5. So a wise old man among them said,
Think, for composed souls their thinking.

6. Did making it feminine place the bodkin,
Or elevating passions make it masculine?

7. This one was masculinized and that feminized,
And fingernail polish their polishing.

8. Don't you see that the bodkin was enabled
To penetrate the earth, so management its management?

9. So be angry at things or leave them
To where destiny has led them.