1. How can I escape from Iraq when I have chosen in it
The mines of generosity?

2. I saw in it a glory that was adorned
By knowledge and wisdom.

3. Gatherings where judges dance
When they relax from the noose of analysis

4. As if they were kings of Himyar whose
Crowns were completed despite difficulties.

5. And a friend who mixes wine for us
With a sweet nature from virtues.

6. Age colors his hair vainly
Fingers like the red of ants.

7. Until eyes imagined his gray hair
The gray hair of doers dyed with blood.

8. When God watered a house, He watered
Baghdad with what it attempted of building.

9. O the blessing of science being a companion in it
And living between ease and doing without.