Sol 6.1

  1. A man of wealth surveyed an estate and tended it

    With the stewardship of a noble, resolute man, himself a resolute man's son.

  2. For a time he stayed there, day and night, and was not

    Like one who begrudged dirhams for its cultivation.

  3. The creaking of palm fiber from its fronds seemed like

    The creaking of hackberry-wood saddles atop sturdy camels.

  4. And it grew ever higher with vegetation, as though it were

    Upon the back of an old man among the non-Arab elders.

  5. And the rootstock, so long as you water its root-bed,

    With water, does not slumber in its care for a branch.

Sol 6.1