Then, bringing out their mules, they saddled them;

And tied us to the girths on either hand.

They drove my weeping sisters from the cavern;

And sought to tear my mother from her home;

But she escaped them;

And they let her bide

Amid the ruins of her life,

Whose light had dropped, so suddenly,

From out the highest heavens:

And, when I turned to look on her,