للهto God (an exclamation of admiration) روضٌa garden شققsplit open الأكمامthe bud-sheaths مذsince; when
لله روضٌ شقق الأكمام مذ
جرتtrailed بهthrough it أذيالهاtheir skirts النسماتthe breezes
جرت به أذيالها النسمات
What a garden—its flower-sheaths have burst open since
How wondrous a garden whose bud-sheaths burst open when
the breezes trailed their skirts through it!
the breezes trailed their skirts through it!
وكأنماand as though الأطيارُthe birds فوقabove غصونهاits boughs
وكأنما الأطيارُ فوق غصونها
سطرٌa line of writing علىupon ألفاتهits alifs همزاتُhamza marks
سطرٌ على ألفاته همزاتُ
The birds perched upon its branches seem
And it is as though the birds above its boughs
a written line: hamzas above its alifs.
were a line of writing, with hamzas upon its alifs.
Sol 6.1