Ode III: The Sons of Jusham son of

The Sons of Jusham son of Bakr ask me whether the Locust has a white blaze on her forehead, or is all of one colour.

She is the steed that dashed against them, on her back the wounded old warrior like a lion.

When her charge has taken her through their ranks, she returns to charge them again, and the spears hold her back so that she cannot move.

Three of her legs are like one another in having a white ring round the pastern, while one leg is all of one colour.

She is a bay, of no doubtful hue, but the colour of .sw/into which the hide to be dyed has been plunged a second time.