وجدول كلما مر النسيم به

وجدول كلما مر النسيم به

كساه درعا لها حبابه حلق

كساه درعا لها حبابه حلق

And a stream—whenever the breeze passed over it,

Whenever the breeze would pass by a brook

And a stream—whenever the breeze passes over it,

it clothed it in mail whose rings were its bubbles;

It would clothe it in a coat of bubbles rippling

It clothes it in chainmail whose links are the bubbles,

حتى إذا انطبعت ليلا به شهب

حتى إذا انطبعت ليلا به شهب

لم تمتر العين فيه أنه الأفق

لم تمتر العين فيه أنه الأفق

until, when stars were imprinted upon it at night,

Until when stars were mirrored in it at night

Until, when shooting stars are imprinted in it at night,

the eye did not doubt that it was the horizon.

The eye could not tell it apart from the horizon

The eye doubts not that it is the horizon.