كَأَنَّها حينَ فاضَ الماءُ وَاِحتَفَلَت

كَأَنَّها حينَ فاضَ الماءُ وَاِحتَفَلَت

صَقعاءُ لاحَ لَها بِالسَرحَةِ الذيبُ

صَقعاءُ لاحَ لَها بِالسَرحَةِ الذيبُ

As though, when the water overflowed and she gathered speed,

As it swept in a flood, and wildly whirled,

she were a white-headed ostrich to which the wolf appeared by the spreading tree.

Earth seemed a rolling drum, from hill to hill impelled.