1. I am amazed at the silk garment, yet
Its fringes seem like the flirtations of young gazelles

2. And the honey its collector gathers while humming
Like the lies of rain whose trails were not lost

3. As if this full moon, its light has faded
And its vestiges and abodes have been erased

4. Was it by decree of your God, arising
To whisper its secret, so it flirts with it

5. It travels by the destiny of the King to an end
But neither does it reach it, nor does its journey cease

6. Do not these sleeping in solitude see us
Sleeping in desolation, the desert their comrade?

7. If it senses old age like a planet,
No burial ground does its lodging frequent

8. When will a star take charge of the earth? For it
Endures a time, then your Lord deposes it

9. They are two young men of fate passing the youth
Had he been firm mountains, its quakes would shake him

10. Like the oaths of a cave, each day and night
To family or wealth its calamities aspire