1. برز الهلال متوجاً بالأنجم

    كالمأس في نظم بظاهر معصم

    The crescent appeared, crowned with stars,

    Like a diamond strung upon the outside of a wrist.

  2. هل أنت حسنأ جرى بعروقها

    ماء الوسامة والوضاءة كالدم

    Are you a beauty through whose veins has flowed

    The water of beauty and radiance, like blood?

  3. لم أنت مخلوق ومالخيالنا

    إدراكه يا إبن السماء تكلم

    Why were you created, when our imagination cannot

    Grasp it? O son of the sky, speak!

  4. تبدى إبن السماء علي السماء

    وسيما في قميص من ضياء

    The son of the sky appeared against the sky,

    Handsome, in a shirt of light.

  5. تبدى كانه دنق يقاسي

    جوى آلامه فوق الشقاء

    He appeared as though he were an ailing man enduring

    A burning heartache whose pains surpass misery.

  6. ويجتذب العيون إليه حتى

    كان ألارض شدت بالسماء

    And he draws eyes toward himself, so that

    It is as though the earth were bound to the sky.