The wild kine roam there large-eyed, and the deer pass to and fro,

and their younglings rise up to suck from the spots where they all lie round.

I stood there and gazed; since I saw it last twenty years had flown,

and much I pondered thereon: hard was it to know again--

The black stones in order laid in the place where the pot was set,

and the trench like a cistern's root with its sides unbroken still.

And when I knew it, at last, for his resting-place, I cried,

"Good greeting to thee, O house! Fair peace in the morn to thee!"

Look forth, O friend! canst thou see aught of ladies, camel-borne,

that journey along the upland there, above Jurthum well?