From beginning to the end of the year
We are waiting and hoping always:
My God! Soften the hearts of the authorities."
With the Touaregs, the civil, or war against the Arabs, replaces the war against the Christians, and has not been less actively celebrated:
"We have saddled the shoulders of the docile camel,
I excite him with my sabre, touching his neck,
I fall on the crowd, give them sabre and lance;
And then there remains but a mound,
And the wild beasts find a brave meal."