Sol 5.6

  1. What glad tidings, sublime in their refrain,

    have flooded existence’s valleys with guidance!

  2. Send forth, O sky, the loftiest songs,

    and with them, O earth, resound with God’s oneness.

  3. Fill the ear of time with proud glory,

    and take pride in glories newly won and long inherited.

  4. For upon your heights a ray has gleamed

    that has no peer in radiance.

  5. It is a peerless dawn upon the brow of time,

    and a festival forever renewed;

  6. and visions fashioned by God, which became

    the matchless advent of the finest child ever born.

  7. It sent banners of light streaming through the skies

    to sweep away the age-old darkness,

  8. and looked upon life, smiling-lipped,

    like a longed-for dream made flesh.

  9. It poured forth upon all worlds a fountain

    of peace, mercy, and felicity.

  10. It is the advent of noble virtues and nobility,

    and the gleam of exalted glory and divine aid.

  11. At its coming, Khosrow’s great arch collapsed into rubble,

    and wounded the heart of weary Caesar.

  12. The hosts of evil vanished, routed,

    like a mirage dispersed across the sands.

  13. Through the world spread the first glad signs of a dawn

    that suffused the universe with new light.

Sol 5.6