Halt by the ruined abodes at La‘la‘ and mourn for our loved…

Halt by the ruined abodes at La‘la‘ and mourn for our loved ones in that wilderness.
Halt by thy dwelling-places and call to them, wondering at their loneliness, with exquisite lamentation.
'Beside thy bán tree I have seen many a one like myself plucking the fruit of comely forms and the roses of a verdant meadow.
Everyone who hopes for thy bounty receives copious showers thereof; thy lightning never breaks its promise of rain except with me.'
She said, 'Yes; there hath been that meeting in the shadow of my boughs in the most plenteous spot,
When my lightning was one of the lightnings of smiling mouths; but to-day my lightning is the flash of this brilliant stone.
Reproach, then, a fate which we had no means of averting: what is the fault of the camping-place at La‘la‘?'
I excused her when I heard her speech and how she was complaining even as I complain with a sorrowful heart,
And I asked her, when I saw her demesne, through which the four winds sweep at night,
'Did their winds tell thee where they rested at noontide?' She said, 'Yes; they rested at Dhát al-Ajra‘,
Where the white tents are radiant with those rising suns within.'