أسدٌa lion ولوand if أنّيthat I أناI… (beginning of 'I scrutinize it')
أسدٌ ولو أنّي أنا
قِشُهُ…scrutinize it (word continuation) الحسابَthe reckoning لقلتُI would say صَخْرهْa rock
قِشُهُ الحسابَ لقلتُ صَخْرهْ
A lion—yet if I were to
examine it closely, I would say: a rock.
وكأنَّهand as though it were أسدُthe lion of السَّماthe sky… (word continues)
وكأنَّه أسدُ السَّما
ءِword ending completing 'the sky' يمجُّspouts منْfrom فيهits mouth المجرَّهْthe Milky Way
ءِ يمجُّ منْ فيه المجرَّهْ
And as though it were the lion of the sky,
spouting the Milky Way from its mouth.
Sol 6.1