انظر اليها والنسرُ منحدرٌ

انظر اليها والنسرُ منحدرٌ

والليلُ جيشٌ نجومُه خُوَذُه

والليلُ جيشٌ نجومُه خُوَذُه

Look at her while the Eagle descends,

Look at her, the eagle swoops down

and night is an army whose stars are its helmets.

And the night, its army of stars its armor

كأنّها حين أعرضت نَمِرٌ

كأنّها حين أعرضت نَمِرٌ

يَظهَرُ لي من حجابهِ فَخِذُه

يَظهَرُ لي من حجابهِ فَخِذُه

When she turned aside, she was like a leopard

As if when she turned away, a panther

whose thigh appears to me from behind its veil.

Revealed to me from its cover, its thigh