1. سَماءُ الدُّنى حَيثُ الثُّريّا مقارن

    لَها القَمرُ الزّاهي بِجنحِ الدّجى يَجري

    The sky of the worlds, where the Pleiades is accompanied

    by the radiant moon, coursing beneath the wing of darkness,

  2. كَعَبدٍ بَدا في كَفِّه طَبَرٌ لَهُ

    لِكَي يَحرسَ العُنقودَ مِن ثَعلَبِ الفَجرِ

    like a slave with his axe visible in his palm,

    to guard the cluster from the fox of dawn.