أُسائِلُ عَنْ أَنْسابِ قَوْمٍ عَرَفْتُهُمْ

فَقِيلَ هُمُ أَحْفادُ مَنْ كُنْتُ أَعْرِفُ

I ask about the ancestry of a people I once knew,

And am told they are the descendants of those I was familiar with.