1. Do you forget them at the Khayf

    of Mina, descending in scattered bands,

  2. while their swift gait has clothed them

    in anklets of flint?

  3. Hills where you see the bearer

    come to resemble the one borne:

  4. so this one is slaughtered in ritual sacrifice,

    and that one slain by love.

  5. Do you know which of them is swifter

    at sending souls away?

  6. Is it the white, keen-cutting swords,

    or the fair, shapely, long-necked women?

  7. And the polished cheek is not

    inferior to the polished sword.

  8. Is one who cuts within a sheath

    like one who cuts unsheathed?

  9. Ah, O augur of the creature passing on the right,

    you have not interpreted it well.

  10. It ran on the right, yet you did not find

    the cord of union unbroken.

  11. I deem the curtained chamber, for what

    its dwellers do to me, a thicket.

Sol 6.1