أَطَلَّ صَليبُ الدَلوِ بَينَ نُجومِهِ

يَكُفُّ رِجالاً عَن عِبادَتِها الصُلبا

The bucket's cross appeared amidst its stars

It stopped men from worshipping their rigidity

فَرَبُّكُمُ اللَهُ الَّذي خَلَقَ السُهى

وَأَبدى الثُرَيّا وَالسِماكَينِ وَالقَلبا

So your Lord is Allah who created the planets

And initiated Pleiades, Orion and the Heart

وَأَنحَلَ بَدرَ التَمِّ بَعدَ كَمالِهِ

كَأَنَّ بِهِ الظَلماءَ قاصِمَةٌ قُلبا

And the full moon declined after its perfection

As if the darkness was breaking its heart

وَأَدنى رِشاءً لِلعِراقي وَلمَ يَكُن

شَريعاً إِذا نَصَّ البَيانُ وَلا خِلبا

And brought rain closer to Iraq but it wasn't

Lawful when eloquence specified nor a dress

وَصَوَّرَ لَيثَ الشُهبِ في مُستَقَرِّهِ

وَلَو شاءَ أَمسى فَوقَ غَبرائِهِ كَلبا

And pictured the shooting star in its orbit

If He wished it would become a dog over its ashes

وَأَلقى عَلى الأَرضِ الفَراقِدَ فَاِرتَعَت

مَعَ الفَرقَدِ الوَحشيِّ تَرتَقِبُ الأَلبا

And cast on earth the laid down beasts so they grazed

With the wild laid down beast watching for food

وَأَهبَطَ مِنها الثَورَ يَكرُبُ جاهِداً

فَتَعلَق ظَلفَيهِ الشَوابِكُ وَالهُلبا

And brought down from it the bull bellowing strenuously

So its dewlaps and jowls clung to the fetters

وَأَضحَت نَعامُ الجَوِّ بَعدَ سُموِّها

سُدىً في نَعامِ الدَوِّ لا تَأمَنَ الغُلبا

And the ostriches of the air after their loftiness

Became in vain among the ostriches of the livestock not safe from defeat

وَأَنزَلَ حوتاً في السَماءِ فَضَمَّهُ

إِلى النونِ في خَضراءَ فَاِعتَرَفَ السُلبا

And sent down a whale in the sky so He added

It to the fish in the greenness so it admitted being captured

وَأَسكَنَ في سُكٍّ مِنَ التُربِ ضَيِّقٍ

نُجومَ دُجىً في شَبوَةٍ أَبَت الثَلبا

And inhabited in a narrow hole of dust

The stars of darkness in a burrow that refused holes