At Dhú Salam and the monastery in the abode of al-Ḥimá

At Dhú Salam and the monastery in the abode of al-Ḥimá, are gazelles who show thee the sun in the forms of marble statues.
Therefore I watch spheres and serve in a church and guard a many-coloured meadow in the spring.
And at one time I am called the herdsman of the gazelles in the desert, and at another time I am called a Christian monk and an astrologer.
My Beloved is three although He is One, even as the (three) Persons (of the Trinity) are made one Person in essence.
So be not displeased, O friend, that I speak of gazelles that move round the marble statues as 'a shining sun',
Or that I use metaphorically the necks of the gazelles, the face of the sun, and the breast and wrist of the white statue,
Just as I have lent to the branches (spiritual) endowments and to the meadows moral qualities, and to the lightning laughing lips.