في باطن الأرواح كبريتة

في باطن الأرواح كبريتة

تجتذب الأنثى إلى نفسِها

تجتذب الأنثى إلى نفسِها

In the depths of the spirits lies a grain of sulfur,

Within the souls there is a sulfur

which draws the female toward itself.

That attracts the female to itself

وإنما تصبو إلى تربها

وإنما تصبو إلى تربها

لأنه في الأصل من جنسِها

لأنه في الأصل من جنسِها

And she yearns only for her peer,

And she only aspires to her soil

for he is, in origin, of her own kind.

Because it was originally of her kind

تلك القرابات التي بينها

تلك القرابات التي بينها

تحددت باللبث في حبسِها

تحددت باللبث في حبسِها

Those affinities that lie between them

Those kinships between them

were defined by lingering in their confinement.

Were defined by lingering in her prison

قد زوجت بالحل أجسادها

قد زوجت بالحل أجسادها

فاصبحت تصبو إلى نفسِها

فاصبحت تصبو إلى نفسِها

Their bodies have been coupled through dissolution,

Their bodies were married by dissolution

and so they came to yearn for themselves.

So she came to aspire to herself

وهذه الأصباغ قد ولدت

وهذه الأصباغ قد ولدت

من بذرها الأصباغ في شمسِها

من بذرها الأصباغ في شمسِها

And these tinctures have brought forth

And these colors were born

tinctures from their seed, within their sun.

From their seeds the colors in her sun