1. Nothing is better, O hunter, than a rifle
That distracts you with its firing from firing.

2. Like a swift bird when it appears
Bending to kill it on its perch.

3. With a bent beak like the tip of a reed stalk
Unlike the poisonous sting of a scorpion.

4. And a magnificent tufted forehead
That appears like an ostrich over its eggs.

5. And claws like covered shears
More painful than the burn of hot fire on the skin.

6. It has a sling for it, bands that grip it
Like those that were braided from silk.

7. Like one who boasts of his tracking skills
Or a sleepless one with drooping eyelids.

8. Or like a book its writer has edited
And connected its chapters in order.

9. When it hunts a bird and brings it down
To the basin of death without hands or skin.

10. I saw one endowed with conquering power
Judging with the justice of a lion in war.

11. He deduces by what he shows of wonder
The measures of the working of the One, the Absolute.