1. It captivated our ears with a gentle tune
Conversing with it about its secret, and it converses with him

2. A conversation whose strings are tuned to its moods
Elements from it, its speaker has composed creation

3. For fire is from it zabr, and earth from it mubah
For wind its octave, and for water its fifth

4. And every person yearns for a melody from it
According to the nature from which it originates

5. It complained of the stroke of its right, so its left
Encircled it for a while, stirring it

6. Until it showed me, while I was departing
Responding to it in the most beautiful humming and buzzing

7. That I reckoned the Babylonians had cast
On its words the magic with which it breathes