صَحَّتْ مَقَادِرُ ضَرْبهَا وَحِسَابِهَا

صَحَّتْ مَقَادِرُ ضَرْبهَا وَحِسَابِهَا

وَغِنَائِهَا وَتَوازَنَتْ فِي الأَنْفُسِ

وَغِنَائِهَا وَتَوازَنَتْ فِي الأَنْفُسِ

The measures of her playing and her reckoning were exact,

The calculations of its strokes and accounting

As were those of her singing; they were balanced within souls.

And its sufficiency and balance in the souls

وَكَأَنَّ أَشْكَالَ المُثَلَّثِ إِنَّمَا

وَكَأَنَّ أَشْكَالَ المُثَلَّثِ إِنَّمَا

يُؤْخّذْنَ عَنْهَا لَيْسَ عَنْ إِقْلِيْدِسِ

يُؤْخّذْنَ عَنْهَا لَيْسَ عَنْ إِقْلِيْدِسِ

And it is as though the figures of the triangle are only

Are as if the shapes of triangles

Taken from her, not from Euclid.

Are derived from it, not from Euclid