1. Tamim's daughter wished to marry me
Yet my mother is no kin to Tamim's clan

2. Abu Sulayman was once my brother
Yet partnership lasts not as long as leather

3. We came to Isfahan and it made fools of us
After living in comfort and bliss

4. Remember when we raided on that morn
You on your marked, brown-nosed camel-colt

5. It trips at every watering hole and dale
Stumbling as if on an uneven trail

6. You have nothing left but an old cloak
My share - else I'm bereft and broke

7. So you find yourself in tatters and rags
Gloating over what joys life still bags

8. Expecting one day she will take you back
By the Sanctuary, the oath is slack

9. Once Isfahan was a blessed land
For the migrant pauper, luckless man

10. Yet when we came jealousy was rife
And hate for things passed stained as with knife

11. I knew not the faces, nor they mine
Faces with no sign of things benign

12. I showed in going there folly and ignorance
No captive I, misguided vagrant

13. If only the noble seed of 'Attab
Could mend this matter difficult and grim

14. What hope from one whom absence erased
Like a womb that is barren and waste

15. None can confine me but my wanton self
Tryst of the traitor - cause of stealth