Sol 5.6

  1. No old camel whom the heart of ʿArḍ enfolded—

    Yemeni in his yearning, his inner thirst aflame—

  2. moaning when the caravan-camels come early upon him,

    in the forenoon, or stir before him toward evening;

  3. in a valley whose two banks he never left,

    where he grew old, and where he had been a weanling;

  4. then had his watering places changed from those waters to brine,

    and, after his cool refreshment, to a long thirst;

  5. and his two lava fields and Jamāḍ exchanged for a land

    where, amid its heat, he grapples with fetters—

  6. is more grievously anguished or impassioned than I,

    though I harbor the long estrangement within.

Sol 5.6