1. For whom are the stray toys of castaway boys
Left to roam the wild plains where the horses graze?

2. Left to birth whatever their birth-givers may be -
Just beasts and valley sprites are their midwives.

3. One boy has a mother of noble descent -
At the peak of a noble and ancient line,

4. Crying weakly as labor pains rack her frame:
"Would I herded the mountain goats passing by!"

5. They left him there, lips cracked from the sun's hot blaze,
Though his uncle and father are lords of the tribe.