1. They ride around the dunes in litters
Keen on an ancient, lasting text

2. I urged them while the living descended from me
Speaking of pilgrims on the days of stoning

3. It moves with every young man as if his cloak
Damp with his tears is the cloak of one who drowned

4. They compete over saddlebags, their talk
Like the competition of wild cows over a drink

5. The flowing of their eyes as if their tears
Were pearls descending from carnelian gems