أهلاً به من عارِضٍ تَرَكَ الدُّجَى

أهلاً به من عارِضٍ تَرَكَ الدُّجَى

ببَياضِ مُزنْتِهِ غُراباً أبقَعا

ببَياضِ مُزنْتِهِ غُراباً أبقَعا

Welcome to it—a cloud that turned the darkness

Welcome to the guest who left the darkness

Into a pied crow with the whiteness of its rain cloud.

With his shining white appearance, a speckled crow

نَثَرَتْ يَدُ الأرياحِ لُؤلُؤَ ثَلْجِه

نَثَرَتْ يَدُ الأرياحِ لُؤلُؤَ ثَلْجِه

فَبدا بأجيادِ الغُصونِ مُرَصَّعا

فَبدا بأجيادِ الغُصونِ مُرَصَّعا

The hand of the winds scattered the pearls of its snow,

The hand of the winds scattered the pearls of his snow

So they appeared, set like jewels on the necks of the branches.

So it appeared with the branches' palms embellished

وكأنَّما عَبِثَتْ لوامِعُ بَرْقِه

وكأنَّما عَبِثَتْ لوامِعُ بَرْقِه

بِسَحابِهِ فرَمَتْ به فَتَقَطَّعا

بِسَحابِهِ فرَمَتْ به فَتَقَطَّعا

And it was as though the flashes of its lightning had toyed

As if the flashes of his lightning had played

With its cloud, then flung it away, so it broke apart.

With its clouds, so it threw at them, fragmented