Away, strangers, away!

Leave the flowers of our plains

To the bees of the country.

Away, strangers, away!

O the generous One! Behold, then, the night

In which our goums shall burn powder

Close to the very douar of Yamina,

While the women are yet without their girdles,

And the horses have iron fastenings on their feet,

Before the aâtatouche[[72]] has been placed on the backs of