1. وليلةٍ قد نسجَتْ ريُحها

    غيما به آفاقُها تكتسى

    And a night whose wind had woven

    clouds with which its horizons were clothed.

  2. ما زال يطوى النجمُ أخبارَهُ

    فيها عن الناظر حتى نُسِى

    The star kept concealing its tidings

    within it from the beholder, until it was forgotten.

  3. خلنا بها الأرضَ سماءً وقد

    أُطلعَ فيها أنجمُ النرجسِ

    We thought the earth a sky that night, for

    the stars of narcissus had been made to rise upon it.