فلما رأى الجوزاء أول صابحٍ

فلما رأى الجوزاء أول صابحٍ

وصَرَّتها في الفجر كالكاعِب الفُضُلْ

وصَرَّتها في الفجر كالكاعِب الفُضُلْ

Then, when he saw Orion first rising at dawn,

When the morning star saw first light of dawn

and its star-cluster at daybreak, like a maiden in a single robe,

And the Pleiades set in the sky like a fading cluster

وخَبَّ السَّفا واستبطن الفحلُ والتقت

وخَبَّ السَّفا واستبطن الفحلُ والتقت

بامعزها بُقْعُ الجنادِب ترتكِلْ

بامعزها بُقْعُ الجنادِب ترتكِلْ

and fine dust raced, and the breeding male entered the hollow, and there gathered

The night grew dim and the east began to shine

on its gravelly ground the mottled grasshoppers, kicking.

As the goat met its kid where partridges call