1. Do you not see the lights in the darkness of night
Whose origin is in the beholders a friend

2. Smoke of sublime qualities, its sparks
Lightning, and the knot of gain in it tight

3. And night like the day of union, as for its meadows
A flower, and as for its musk so potent

4. And Baghdad a sea, its coast gems
And the Tigris a garden, its banks basil

5. And its pebbles have become ruby, and its soil amber
Its water musk while it flows