وَلربَّ لاعبةٍ عَجيبٍ امرُها

جمعت من الاضداد كيف تشاءُ

The Lord has a wondrous, complex creation

She is made of contradictions, as He wishes

جَمَدت فقلنا تِلكَ غُضوٌ واحدٌ

وَتحرَّكت فجميعها أَعضآءُ

Motionless, we said, "That's but a single whole"

Moving, all her parts like limbs would function

كالمآءِ سيّالٌ وَثَلجٌ جامدٌ

وَيَزيد في السَيَلان فهو هَوآءُ

Like water, fluid, and ice, solidified

More flowing makes her naught but air, gentrified

وَكأَنَّ أَعظُمَها بغير مفاصلٍ

او كُلُّهنَّ مَفاصِلٌ أسوآءُ

Her greatest parts seem to have no joints

Or all her parts are joints, hexagonal

وَتماوَتَت فالمَوتُ منها عاجِبٌ

أَمواتُهُ بازآئها احيآءُ

She swung and death in her was so perplexing

Her dying parts by the living, vexing

ثم اِستَوَت ولقوَّةٍ بحياتها

كادَت تَعيش بمسّها الأَشيآءُ

Then she steadied, and by her life force

Nearly animated things she would endorse