1. Had you been there on the day when spears dripped blood,
You would not have turned away, and nothing but the trysting-places of Wadaqin overflowing would have increased you.

2. When the ostrich eggs of Samhara are excited
by our oaths, and egg strikes on egg.

3. Stations that make one forget what went before,
Where you see the ignorant boast to ulcers.

4. As though the falling of the eggs down, then the rising up of them
Were the opening and shutting of the doors of a darkened house.

5. If you have been given a drink from her cup like me,
Why then, O snapper-up of trifles, do you not stagger?

6. You were set up as the guarantee of a ruinous dwelling,
To which some providing visitor comes every day.