1. No drawing left its mark on me
Or wiped away its lines from me.

2. A yellow one whose train did crawl
Through muddy tracks so slimily.

3. A howdah, O how intricate
Its saddlecloth's embroidery!

4. A stallion of unmixed breed
Whose neigh is shrill and high.

5. He came all sleek through falcons' claws
With generosity in his veins.

6. I praised his lightning—no reproach
Against his blinding light remains.

7. His thunder I proclaimed sublime-
No fault in its loud roar obtains.

8. The bursting thunder when it dons
Its clouds' enveloping terrains

9. Rains down upon a desert, bare,
Exposing all its parents' stains.

10. A youth who honored well the womb
That brought his sires before these plains-

11. The moon itself bedecked him in
The brilliant garb it entertains,

12. And I have wrought in verse my love
And disciplined its metered chains.