1. She said, "Roam the breadth of the deserts
Until you settle where you have lush pasture."

2. But I refused to leave at your bidding
The abode which is obedient to me.

3. By my life! No place has wronged me
That autumn should make it suffer.

4. Nor am I one with meager living,
Or one suffering injustice and hunger.

5. When I have the day's nourishment,
And spurn all else, I'm not greedy.

6. How, when I own riches from livelihoods
With which a star of them rises?

7. So why should I shorten my striving steps
When the steps of sustenance seek me out?