1. Damascus quenched the thirst of its neighbor Jeronah
With a triangle of train tracks that humbled it

2. An act that returns color to the plains with its dye
What happened this year to its variegation?

3. And the lightning's shyness dressed every flirt
Whose gardens we lead to Qaboun

4. So the terraces of its beauty lead to its canals
And the two valleys to the folds of its plains

5. My homelands, homelands, and the faith of my youth
I will not turn my youth away from its faith

6. You flaunt yourself in the finery of its people
And your eyes delight in the beauty of their eyes

7. And you like the two examples in their actions
The swaying of the slender bodies and the leaning branches

8. How many meadows danced their cloaks
And brought their nightingales with the beauty of their tunes

9. Yearning souls called out to me in passion
Coming with their arts in their tunes

10. Shawqi lies buried in Damascus and the ecstasy of passions
Nothing can touch you like its buried treasures

11. Have you seen more beautiful than the adornment of its land?
Its sky has worn the mask of its gloom

12. And with my love I have revealed its canal
In its color and softness in its tenderness

13. And indeed I have heard, and never heard its like
To which the ages incline the heart of the passionate

14. It diminished before its standing and its people withered
Beware of their swords and their eyelids

15. The long night of my love for Layla Aamir
Why then do you not sympathize with her crazy lover?

16. I cry and you laugh, asking not about
My state, my worries, and tribulations

17. And Tannoufah, whom I passed by, swaying
As long as her belt and her pillow

18. From every passionate encounter and tryst
Cutting across the wilderness, safe

19. It threaded its intestines, valleys and folds
And sailed over the hills and sorrows of its plains

20. And many a mirage sea with abundant illusion
It bypassed, spurning with its ship

21. So it came to the hills, straight like an arrow
Borne like arrows by its conjectures

22. And to the lofty kingdom of defiant mountains
It rose above every curved-back breed

23. Until when it arrived at the field of its quest
There it unlocked the fetters of its purposes