1. My heart cannot conceal its love though I wished to hide it
She allured me, though union was not her desire

2. Do you see her caravan passing speedily by
Like a fleeing oryx from the first watering place?

3. They alighted at the spring to rest awhile
Then travelled on to a waving meadow

4. There they lingered, ceaselessly raising
The burdens from the camel's hump

5. Their cooking pots soon bubbled over
Under the cooking shed's shade

6. Amazed, Tuktam cried "How strange today
That you see me changed!"

7. "O virtuous one! We are only captives
To the days' vicissitudes after the nights."

8. Time has been harsh and shown me its might
As once it humbled the strong like me

9. Its arrows have pierced me since it saw
That Solaima's arrows left me alone

10. This which you saw is nothing strange
But wonder at the waning of life's days

11. Fate will strike down the climber on the steep hill
And the hermit atop the mountain's peak

12. And the unique one with the frowning face
Who chose the secure sands as home

13. And stood up to fell the valiant, lofty hero
Between the bleak wilderness and prairie