1. In the wilderness of desolation's land
Rightful of rugged plains and sandy dunes

2. And ruins bidding ruins in their ruins
Every fleet messenger hastened through

3. Strapping their side-bags, robust and bold
Peddling their wares with clinking bells

4. Measuring the breadth of ruin after ruin
Stretching to the nearest mountain beyond

5. Pouring torrents cascading like serpents
If not for the obstructions and twists in their path

6. With their chests, thrice the width expanded
At the bends from their selling wanderings

7. Slithering stealthily like snakes in coils
Shedding flakes of fragments and debris

8. Every heap of scattered bones, muted
Coffin convulsing, wiped and smoothed

9. Cheeks wide and gaping, oxen-marked
Scraping loudly his shame so candid

10. Slain with body strewn on stones
Over ruins and whereabouts the remnants stayed