He encircled the sky and the earth; in strange form he again made offspring — young women with their own ones. With dark ones, with shining ones, with ruddy ones, with bright bodies they wandered, other and other.

(Night and dawn), of various complexion, repeatedly born, but ever youthful, have traversed in their revolutions alternately, from a remote period, earth and heaven; night with her dark, dawn with her luminous limbs.

Still born afresh, young Dames, each in her manner, unlike in hue, the Pair in alternation Round heaven and earth from ancient time have travelled, Night with her dark limbs, Dawn with limbs of splendour.