يا هلالاً في تجنِّيهِ

وقضيباً في تَثنِّيهِ

O crescent moon in your slendering

And rod in your bending

والذي لسْتُ أُسمِّي

هِ ولكنِّي أُكنّيهِ

He whom I do not name

But only hint at

شادنٌ ما تَقْدرُ العيْ

نُ تراهُ من تَلاليهِ

Stately, whom eyes cannot resist

Seeing him from his hills

كلَّما قابلَهُ شخ

صٌ رأى صُورتَهُ فيهِ

Whenever faced by a person

He saw his image in him

لانَ حتى لو مَشى الذَّرْ

رُ عليهِ كادَ يُدْميهِ

For even if an atom walked on him

It nearly crumpled him