1. وَقد غمض الغَرب الهِلال كَأَنَّما

    يُلاحظ مِنهُ ناظر ذات أَشفار

    And the west has closed over the crescent, as though

    A lash-fringed eye were glancing out from it.

  2. كَأَنَّ الَّذي بقى لَنا مِنهُ أفقه

    فَضيض سِوارٍ أَو قَراضة دينار

    As though what its horizon has left of it for us

    Were a fragment of a bracelet, or a clipping from a dinar.