سندبادنامه 60.1

60.1

# فأتت تجر علی السماء ذنولها متاسة الاعطاف فی حاراتها # غراء مهما أنشدت سحدت لها سیارة الافلاک فی آوجاتها وتمنت الثنهب الثواقب آنها نظمت تقاصیرا علی لتاتها # و تود آذان اللیالی انها نطت مکان القرط فی اخراتها چون این اشارت بدیدم ، واین بشارت بشنیذم ، رخش فکرت را در زین کشیذم ، وبقطع مسافت این بیدا بسیچیذم ، وبا سعادت گفتم :

'She came dragging her skirts across the sky, / swaggering in her sides through its lanes,
Radiant, whenever she was recited, / the wandering planets of the celestial spheres prostrated to her at their apogees,
And the piercing shooting stars wished / they were strung as short necklaces across her breasts,
And the ears of the nights longed / to be hung with her in place of earrings in their piercings.'
When I saw this sign and heard this glad tiding, I saddled
the steed of thought, prepared to traverse the distance of this desert, and said to Good Fortune: