Sol 6.1

  1. Is it of estrangement and severance that the black ravens cry,

    and wary birds in the middle reaches wail?

  2. And when she walked, she was like a young, purebred white camel—

    too proud for the short, squat ones to walk beside her.

  3. Or the great, spreading wild fig, with its lofty branches,

    at Khaysaq, shaken by the eddying east wind.

  4. By your life, Ibn Urwah's provisions are not

    kept from the people's hands under lock and key.

  5. And his shade never grows too narrow for them, nor are

    Abu Bakr's riding camels seen being spared and rubbed down.

  6. And a radiant man, ever ready to shoulder every indemnity,

    so no one need ask for it or even clear his throat.

  7. A young man whose bounty has relieved me of what troubled me,

    and, I thought, there was ample room for me on his estates.

  8. Radiant is he; his bowls summon whoever is near him—

    offerings—and the hindmost sit, weighed down.

  9. The caravan's young man, he meets their needs with bounty and is content,

    and among his clan, overflowing with innate virtues and open-handed.

Sol 6.1