1. Cursed and condemned be the land as though
It had traversed mazy mountains and trackless wilds.

2. It rained on us as darkness rains, pouring down
Like cloud-bursts' headlong, gushing waters.

3. It hung above in the air like a sea about to burst,
As if it were the deep with ships and swelling sails.

4. Had it but poured its waters altogether, it would have drowned us.
But its drops were like the spent arrows of fate.

5. As though pearls of water amid its spray
And towers shattered stood like human forms.

6. Nails of pearl rain down on our heads
Now and again, now striking the heights, now the depths.