1. رُبَّ لَيلٍ وَهَت لآلي دُموعي

    فيهِ حَتّى وَهَت لآلي الثُرَيا

    Many a night the pearls of my tears came unstrung

    Within it, until the pearls of the Pleiades came unstrung;

  2. وِرداءُ الدُجى لَبيس دريس

    بيد الصُبح وَهُوَ يَطويه طَيّا

    And the cloak of darkness was worn and threadbare

    In dawn's hand, as it folded it away.