1. Neither the land nor the moon brings me near to you,
An apparition that visits me wherever you travel.

2. Darkness takes its veil, its sky and its stars
As paths to your eyelids though the land was not pleased.

3. And he came to you, his bliss abundant,
An angel with whom the sky is purified.

4. Darkness knew of his descent, so its eyelids
Flowed down taking him slipping down.

5. And the breezes took care neither to wander nor to come
Fearing he would be startled and terrified.

6. And you fell asleep drawing near in your imagination
A place for him between your eyelids and your flowing hair.

7. So you made him happy like ecstasy yearning
Imagining whatever you wanted him to imagine.

8. The firmaments will fold for him love triumphant
And trample the tongues of slanderers victoriously.

9. If not for the gratitude of the eye, O phantom of consent,
Its days would not have forgiven what has passed.

10. It spent the night yearning and its blackness
Was adorned with the statue of Beauty luminous.

11. It is given wishes and it obtains them fittingly
Through you presenting the wishes and postponing them.

12. And it hugs the crescent moon proudly
Until when you say farewell, it hugs the ground.

13. On a night when its crescent was born into existence
Its planets approached teaching it the path.

14. Showing it the tracks of full moons to follow
And the birth deemed it should lead.

15. I spoke privately to the one I love and she spoke to me
Between the gardens and the water of Switzerland.

16. Where the mountains, small and large,
Are all white and green in the sky.

17. The clouds take them as houses, so they shone
Dotted with celestial bodies and speckles.

18. And the bare rock stands tall resembling one sitting
With revealed sides threatening.

19. Among the planets and the clouds you see it has
An ear of deaf stone and an axe.

20. And which side of the slope have you come upon
You will find it a winding staircase rounding.

21. The sky sprinkled its necklace of stars upon it
So its chrysolite appeared jeweled by them.

22. And the white houses seemed to be
Dens of birds or a camp that lodged.

23. And the star sends its light to the waters
While electricity illuminates the land.

24. The moth fluttered around it and the clouds
Circling narrated its surroundings marching on.

25. It was created for his mercy, so his fire
Became cool while the lovers' fires rage.

26. And the water flows above the houses and below them
And through them running around the villages.

27. Directing, ascending, slowing, hastening
Flowing, dripping, stumbling.

28. And the land is a bridge where you turned and a crossing
Connecting a bridge in the waters and a crossing.

29. While the boat in the houses' shade slips away
The streams turn towards it and the rivers.

30. Until when the night was still in its darkness
I drew its dress to me confused.

31. And I went out from among the bridges perhaps
I would meet the beloved caravan if it travelled.

32. I took refuge in the trees and they swayed me
While the birds in them were reassured.

33. And the water swayed me in its glimmer
So I leaned looking in it hoping to see.

34. And there the sky grew restless and it happened
That I sensed a light not fully realized or brighter.

35. So I walked in its splendors and lo
A moon the planets orbit caravanning.

36. A dream the Providence lent me hearing it
In it so I did not complete it before it was interpreted.

37. So I saw my beloved clearly and I began
To forget the awakening while the dreams clung on.

38. And you hinted "Shall we meet?" and inspired that tomorrow
In the hillock white from the mountains of Switzerland,

39. If it rises rosy ascending the morning,
And when it falls red in that rubble,

40. Then its sunrise is the most meaningful of signs
And its sunset the clearest and most perfect view.

41. You will appear there born unto existence
The world celebrates it and the ground rejoices.

42. And it lights the horizons with an innocence
That shone at the mountain top a flowering crown.

43. It rose so it was half a flying carpet not appearing
Until it reached the height a greater flying carpet.

44. Rising above the worlds independent growing
Obstinate in its place that it not be chipped.

45. The horizons swooned for it but it stayed erect
And the specters were veiled but it a gem.

46. And it shook so the world for it shook
And it lit so existence was illuminated.

47. Until when the rising reached its perfection
It allowed the claimant of decline to fall steep.

48. It approached its viewer and its reigns slackened
And the arrogant diminished and grew small.

49. And all the whiteness around it yellowed
And its expanse reddened and became yellow.

50. And the hillock reached towards it as it
Made its heights a red sash.

51. It touched it so its sides caught fire
And its rubble appeared carrying embers.

52. As if it extended its fires to hunt
The retreating daylight as a partner.

53. It burned it and burned with it so they turned away
And their shadows were cloaked by darkness camped.

54. So its sunrise is the beloved hope for one who saw
And its sunset the hated end for one who knew.

55. Two preachers stood at the parapet over al-Safa
There was no purity between them to last.

56. Things change no matter how much they repeat
While God Almighty does not change.

57. Our rivers are under the bridge, above it
And beside it, and between the rubble.

58. On foot, riding, and sliding on a wheel
There, electrically travelling.

59. In a friendly boat the iron bars flowed
Winding and descending.

60. It flows leisurely between the rocks
And lightens between the two valleys rushing.

61. And when empowered by electricity towards
A lofty summit it desires to embrace over a wall.

62. When we descended from it into the mother of rubble
We stood on the bridge’s branch to see.

63. A land where sights undulate, a perfect book
For whoever reads it well and understands.

64. And villages that form halos around the cities
And cities that adorned the steeds of villages.

65. And fields that are marvels for onlookers
The sky dressed them in a green brocade.

66. And the water a copious, gentle betrayal
And streams that are the ingots that flowed.

67. So they filled the mouths of plains with bars
And the waterways of the firmly rooted with gems.

68. Distance has shrunk existence for us so how beautiful
Is existence shrunk for us!