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Translation by Ahmed Qabile (#29692)

The Beginning

All in a moment, years ago,
The boy I was became a man:
Suddenly my life began!
I saw the world before me— So
That ploughman by his horses stands
Sweating on the first hill's brow,
Having left the riverlands
Furrowed in the vale below,
And sees a mountainside to plough,
Barren rock to blunt his share,
Thunder hanging in the air,
And the black peak above him, bare,
Waiting now.
—Let him plough it if he dare!
Bilawgii

Ku dhacdey dhamaan daqiiqad, sanado ka hor ama ka hor sanado, Wiilkii waxaan noqdey nin:
Si lama filaan ah/Si kedis ah noloshaydii ayaa bilaabantay/waxa bilaabmay noloshaydii!
waxaan arkey aduunka iga horeeya aniga- Markaa
ninkaa beero falatada ah oo saaran ama wata fardihiisii ayaa taagan
isagoo Dhididaya buuraha korkooda,
Kasoo tagay dhulkii wabiyada
Oo eegaya dhinaca buurta si uu u fasho
Onkod ayaa hawada ka laalaaday,
Iyo figta madaw ee korkiisa,
Sugaya hada/imika.
-Ha qoto ama ha fasho beerta hadii uu ku dhaco!


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