1. وَرُبَّ صُبْحٍ رَقَبْنَاهُ وقد طَلَعَتْ

    بَقِيّةُ البَدْر في أُولى بَشَائِرِهِ

    And many a dawn we watched, when there had risen

    The remnant of the full moon amid its first heralds,

  2. كَأَنَّما أدهمُ الظلماءِ حينَ نَجا

    مِن أشهَبِ الصُّبحِ ألْقَى نَعْلَ حافِرِهِ

    As though the black steed of darkness, when it escaped

    From the gray steed of dawn, had shed its horseshoe.