1. لَقَد ظَنَّ بَدرُ التمِّ نَقصَ جَمالِهِ

    فَبُعداً لِوَجه البَدر مَع سوءِ ظَنِّهِ

    The full moon indeed thought his beauty deficient.

    Away, then, with the moon's face, along with its ill opinion!

  2. وَلَو أَنَّ هاروتاً رَأى سِحرَ عَينِهِ

    تَعَلَّمَ كَيفَ السِحرُ من حدّ جفنِهِ

    And had Harut seen the magic of his eye,

    he would have learned how magic works from the edge of his eyelid.