A group of travellers arrives from the west, plucking their own hairs and moaning Tell Karbala to open its arms for disasters A caravan coming from the Levant arrives at the slaughterhouse of the righteous
Note:
There is a long pause after each verse. Each verse (including its final pause) takes the equivalent of five metra (i.e. an odd number of metra). Since the taps occur once every two metra, the tap positions alternate in consecutive verses.