The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Nothing he owned remains in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,
in places unknown to those who walk above ground.
Suspended far away from people,
the miners swing back and forth.

when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?