1. Our stars are seven in books they're placed
With limits, names, and signs traced

2. Moon, Mercury, Saturn, its writer
Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Bahram

3. Ranks and systems for us appeared
Among them gems, pearls, and lead smeared

4. And for lead, it has mention
Sa'd Muneer, its making and unmaking

5. The other is gloomy, ominous, veiled
In it fortunes, compelling and hailing

6. And iron, if perfectly wrought
Lead-colored, a secret they sought

7. Then copper, our secrets it hid
Among them spirits, bodies amid

8. And in quicksilver, mighty secrets rest
By it, joined are bodies when pressed

9. Male cross bright, male cross dim
Female exit and entrance within

10. The moon, with light fully filled
A sun, from its light shadows spilled

11. These stars, if imperfect, forgot
Deeds and days were diminished, lost

12. These things are but one, if named apart
Despite differing titles and signs set

13. If color changed, name too differs
Name perplexed minds and differs

14. This that left minds confused
Of it people said and mused