IV + 

Al-Zahra + 

Not with the Orient glamor of her pleasures, + 

Nor with fond rhapsodies of prayer or song + 

Could she her sovereign reign a day prolong; + 

Not in the things of beauty that man measures + 

By the variable humor of his leisures, + 

Or by the credibilities that change + 

From faith to fantasy to rumor strange, + 

Was she the mistress of immortal treasures. + 

But when the holy shrine Europa sought, + 

Herself of sin and witchcraft to assoil, + 

The sovereigns of al-Zahra maxims wrought + 

And Averroes burned his midnight oil;⁠— + 

Arabia, the bearer of the light, + 

Still sparkles in the diadem of Night. + 