1. Despairing of rejoining his companions, though slackened
By a mount worn out by the journey, lacking strength,

2. Its limbs all loose-jointed as if they were ropes
Braiding and hampering its slow pace.

3. Its knee joints seem
As though vultures' talons had hammered them in.

4. The tribe held back from it until it was as though
Amid weaklings a lion ambled halting, subdued.

5. Damn you, ragamuffin Abu Shiblyn, what a sight!
A day dark with pouring rain on Dajan's expanse

6. While cranes floating above it intone their elegy-As though united in grieving for what they look down on:
Loving companions parted from their Saalim, now left

7. With no more than grief that none remains to console.