1. The rain is scattered and the flowers arranged
So the sky weeps while the meadow's mouth smiles

2. And the water is like armor or an unsheathed sword
Beating down the meadows as blood does the anemone

3. No, but you see it as a mirror met
By a bride from the gardens, escorted by a supple body

4. With cheeks as red as joyous roses
And green narcissus eyes and an eloquent mouth

5. Watering Egypt's soil, it being a homeland
Where the joy of life is seized

6. Adorned as a virgin bride, so wondrous
That the decrepit now appear in her breast as youth

7. To El Kanater, from her Nile which dazzled
Our minds in every corner of her land with wisdom

8. She is a camel in the desert, thirsty
Crowding around the flowers and cool waters