1. Shall I inform Warka that their chief
Is hostage to a horde of chirping sparrows?

2. Patience, then, for he whose surety was a necklace
Of the Bani Amir - nights pass quickly.

3. He has been granted two castles which he invests,
Though destiny's dice and fierce lions roar;

4. Granted a fire whose flames twist and coil
And spout like a shower of wanton stars.