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My brother give me paper

And good black ink

And a pen of reed

Which has been selected.

And let me write, inditing

A story from the Arabic

With an account of Job,

The prophet of the Lord of glory.

I love to inform you,

Explaining from the Arabic,

In our language manifestly

Where it was not clear.

And know ye its meaning,

To explain it to our friends,

There are many people

Who do not know Arabic.

Thus it is that it pleases me

To explain in our language,

By speaking and writing,

What is in a book.

Telling it in Swahili.