1. لِلهِ يوماً مَدَّ في صَدرِهِ

    قُوَيْقٌ مَقصورٌ جَناحَيْهِ

    How wondrous a day, in whose breast stretched

    Quwayq, its two wings confined,

  2. مُصَفَّدٌ يَلْثِمُ ماءَ الحَيَا

    مِنْهُ لَمُخْضَرِّ عِذارَيْهِ

    Fettered, kissing the rainwater

    From it, for the green of its two cheek-lines.