Sol 5.6

  1. And many a gleaming blade, though not of India’s forging,

    courses between its two edges—and, by the cutting edge!

  2. It is more like water than watered steel;

    older than Rām and Yazdegerd,

  3. Yahya’s heirloom, passed down from father and forefather,

    after it had cut through a thousand scabbards.

  4. Draw it before Maʿadd:

    the master may be granted victory by the servant’s sword.

Sol 5.6