Sol 6.1

  1. Did you recall your former days, and were you seized by longing,

    and recall a dwelling of the family of Kanud?

  2. It lay deserted, its traces altered by the east wind's weaving

    and the downpours of every thunderous, welcome cloud.

  3. And you did indeed fasten her saddle on al-Maragha,

    until you gave up, having shown no skill.

  4. And you squeezed out her fluid to catch up with Darim;

    how far away—a lead far beyond your reach!

  5. And when matters grow momentous for Darim,

    you bow your head away from proud tribes.

  6. And when you place your father in their scales,

    they outweigh you, and you are not worthy of praise.

  7. And when you count their ancestral glories and those of your people,

    they surpass you in glory newly won and inherited.

  8. And when you count your people's houses, you find no

    house like that of Utarid and Labid:

  9. a house from whose crags the ibexes slip,

    on a soaring height, impregnable and hard to climb.

  10. And your father, with a crooked staff and a cloak,

    is louse-ridden, like a mangy camel, shunned and fever-stricken.

Sol 6.1