1. And lightning flashed as night's darkness faded away
So I said, a bracelet on the wrists of a dark-skinned beloved

2. And a cloud has blocked the horizon’s breadth, appearing to it
Like a brocade shirt visiting the world

3. Swaying into the hands of sweethearts and youth
Like a piece of cloth snatched by rowdy boys from a drunkard

4. It seems with it to be musk, and with drops, pearls
And in the meadow, ruby, and in the mud, ambergris

5. The darkness of clouds sends down white water
And the greenness of land grows yellow flowers

6. The breaths of a sick wind brought it to you
Like a snoring she-camel greedily seeking fodder

7. So it threw over the hollows an outspread coat of mail
And gifted the valleys an embroidered cloak

8. It appears to be, in the air, strung pearls
And, in the earth's gardens, scattered pearls

9. And the earth's blossoming began in the breath of morning
So the air's garment was perfumed overnight

10. Whenever in it thunder rumbled, it responded
With hailstones, and burst forth pouring down

11. And it weeps when lightning smiles its teeth
Making the fire of lightning gushing water

12. As if in it the rashness of youth were a necklace
That took the fold of a cloud as its setting

13. A mouth that from afar shows us glittering
And a tear that from afar shows us trickling