The war that has dragged on in Yemen for seven years has created a major humanitarian disaster. Yemen has experienced war and conflict before since the early days of the Queen of Sheba. The last of the South Arabian kingdoms before the coming of Islam was captured in a qasida by the 12th century Yemeni scholar Nashwan b. Sa‘id al-Himyari. In reading this poem recently I was struck at how relevant the last lines of his poem are for the current political crisis and I share these with you. The full poem can be read online at https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9. An English translation was made by W. F. Prideaux in 1879 and can be found here: https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.93715/page/n3/mode/2up.