1. The daughter of Al-Gawthi said, why are you here,
When you are a Tamimi beside the East?

2. You trouble me before departure, and separation has drawn near,
With no faith, nor kinship binding us.

3. I said to her, needs make a man wander,
And a care has troubled me, driving me on.

4. I did not visit Salma desiring she be a lover to me,
Nor seeking her faith, which I do not pursue.

5.
So it happened I passed by the dwellings of a tribe,

6. To you, from a place ravaged by foxes.
The rain pours down where its clouds have died,

7. Challenging me - its boats fear destruction.
The water is as though its freshness were menstrual blood

8. In its color, and its taste makes the drinker frown.
I returned at nightfall, while the trees were confused,

9. Bewildered by it, as their stars began to tilt.
I cut the shoulders of the water-skin for them to drink,

10. And the sagging waterskin regained its shape.
Their hands bent its lead rope, as if its shed waters