My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed, - and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.

Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:

The lotus-trees cover him with their shade, the willows of the torrent-bed compass him about;