1. He says, as I gathered resolve among the people,
My limbs dyed, mute of anklets,

2. Is this the friend of ghouls, wolves and she
Who wanders with the dames of wraps, the spinsters?

3. The virgins saw the form of the scruffy, pale,
On the barren land, smiling, handsome of traits,

4. He inherited from his fathers their killings,
And feeding them in every dusty, comprehensive.

5. If he hunted game, he wrapped it in his garment,
Quickly, and did not wait to set up the cooking-pots,

6. And a roar like the roar of a falcon, then he split
Its head with his two hands, the wavering old man.

7. So he did not draw out a handkerchief amongst a group,
Or alone, since he shouted amongst the midwives.

8. If God wanted to humiliate a tribe,
He bombarded it with scattering of passions and cowardice.

9. And the first incapacity of the people from what befalls them,
Is their prolonged defending of it.

10. And the first evil of water is the evil of its soil,
And the first villainy of the people is the villainy of relatives.