1. O eternal Paradise, how can one suffer
In your shade, o displaced stranger

2. People are intoxicated with their vain pleasures
While his tears flow copiously

3. He nourishes his sorrows alone
With neither a friend nor kin

4. His only wish when night falls
Is for his eyelids to close and sleep to take him

5. How could the banks of the Nile reject
The blossoms of your orchards

6. And cast him upon a land
Where dreams are falsehood

7. Its endless horizons are darkness
With neither dawn nor dusk

8. And the love of its dwellers is barren
With neither calm nor gust

9. He who follows its body in any way
Finds its heart vacant and desolate

10. My loved ones, farewell is agonizing
Hearts tossed among its cedars

11. Did your love forget
The fragrance of our roses

12. When we sipped cups joyfully
While its face frowned sternly

13. We wrestled with the wine cup, uncaring
What time concealed and kept hidden

14. The flowers around us lay martyred
The stars above watched over us

15. Our hearing feasted on singing
That almost melted from its sweetness

16. Our sight was nourished by a beauty
That pardoned all sins

17. Whenever youth called we rushed forth
All of us eager and compliant

18. Ask me not how I fare today
To live without you is arduous

19. Crazed for your nights that grasped
The cradle of his dreams

20. Neither the cups of love circle round
Nor do the eyes of the meadows blink

21. The arrow flies not knowing
If it will miss or hit its mark

22. It chases glory in an age
That has forsaken it heedlessly

23. The arrow forgets who it is
And the free is a stranger to his people