1. وَمُستَخذِلٍ يَدعو الصَباحَ وَقَد رأَى

    عَرانينَ مَشهورٍ مِنَ الصُبحِ أَبلَقا

    And a solitary one calls for dawn, having already seen

    the first streaks of a bright dawn, dappled black and white—

  2. إِلى غَير هَيجا صَبَّحَت غَيرَ أَنَّهُ

    دَجا فَوقَهُ لَيلُ التِمامِ فأطرَقا

    not for a battle that came at dawn, but because

    night at its longest darkened above him, and he bowed his head.