1. Blessed and exalted is the moon’s Creator in sovereign power!

    He fashioned you in the likeness of the radiant moon.

  2. So subtle were you that you passed refinement’s furthest bound,

    as though you were one of the dwellers in the ether.

  3. You put radiant Venus to shame in brightness,

    and made even Sirius the Crosser seem paltry.

  4. Our little world is lower in degree,

    yet we behold you as belonging to the greater world.

  5. Whoever hates you or seeks you harm

    is dark by nature, while you are my light.

  6. Mercury said, “Be my peer,”

    yet you stood too exalted to be his mere equal.

  7. You attained perfection in ingenuity and possessed a keen mind,

    and knowledge of the secrets of all things.

Sol 5.6