1. Zabid was there while you stood facing it
It was your heaven, but then it moved on from it
١. كانت زبيد وأنتم بازائها
بك جنة ثم ارتحلت بزائها
2. And whenever it would come and go back to it
Nothing that left it was ever lost to it
٢. ومتى تعد عادت وأقبل نحوها
ما ضاع منها ثم باء بيائها