THE WHITE STALLION
Pale as the morning star
in the hour of sunrise
he advances proudly
caparisoned with a saddle of gold.
One who saw him going with me
into battle, envied me and said:
"Who bridled Dawn with the Pleiades?
Who saddled lightning with the half moon?
- Abu I-Salt Umayyah
(1067-1134), Denia