1. The thunder wept and complained
While the lightning blinked and laughed

2. So drink from a cloud like the dye of dusk
Laugh and cheer the face of the earth when it cries

3. The lute told the tale of passion
Yet it was generous in what it recounted

4. And see the Nile water in its flood
As if it were musk or aloeswood

5. And here it resembles the thought of one
Who strung it in words or recounted