1. My wounded ears have heard
Sleep atop the rocky plateau

2. And with death extend to a life
That gladdens and with ordeal to comfort

3. Roast atop your embers or cool down
From misfortune to outright clarity

4. And say, “I have had patience for a gulped drink
So what if I had patience for a nice morning drink?”

5. The most bitter struggle
Is the stab of those fearing success

6. So be with the victims in your forgiveness
As you have been with sacrifices in your forgiveness

7. Truth drips from its sides
Blood, made by manliness and forgiveness

8. And when people’s history adopts
The blood of the free it cannot be erased by an eraser

9. Palestine, may God’s peace flow
On those horizons and low-lands

10. I saw you through the dawn throwing
Onto the green grass the most beautiful scarf

11. The eagle stood erect atop it
So the rooster crowed warning with shouts

12. The night tosses in it to a wing
And the sun appears in it on a wing

13. And the dawn’s eye sheds dew
And wipes it with the handkerchief of morning

14. And the meadows’ breaths are fragranced
By the breath of shepherds to the meadows

15. I touched revelation in the tune of the refuge
And sensed sorrow in the fall of the plains

16. And “Jerusalem” sang repeating
A tune for David a thousand times in the villages

17. And around your youth, which garden
Sleeps whose talk smells of apple blossom?

18. And kindnesses, as if they are pains
And darknesses, as if they are dawns

19. Greetings to the hunching overconfirmed
And yearning to the thirsty for comfort

20. And sorrow that time should pull a sorrow
Upon those witty, sparkling, bright-faced girls

21. Is the mother of Jerusalem her history endless?
And is your day like your yesterday in struggle?

22. Is your cradle, landing place of every revelation
Like your bier, shooter of spears?

23. And if Moses did not lodge in the “Valley of Bewilderment”
Then the cross lodged with Salah

24. And the memory of Nebuchadnezzar in the wastelands
Allenby renews in the suburbs

25. So do not waver, the night is pitch black
And there must be a morning

26. You have tightened the belts of your determination, so go on
And do not be too hard on yourself or you will be violated

27. And do not sings songs of our weeping for you
We extend to you only weeping and shouts

28. And do not sings songs of us for action with us
Is bleak while talk is but shouting

29. And you’ll never find partisans like us
Beating with pain, wound alongside wound

30. And not a people opposing unjust laws
For their tongues have been silenced by screams

31. I protection for you from a fate that we
Have been protected from, with means accessible,

32. A situation whose people yesterday were wavering in it
And today are all banners

33. Their makers have sneakily disowned it
Like a baby sliding out of vagina

34. And they blamed that they had been hovering
Over it in the morning and at rest

35. And history was fabricated for us on the spot
So it came out as it was intended, disgraced,

36. We packed its pages with delusions -
“Like the pupils of the sick craving morning drink”

37. And we coated its features so gently,
As ornament on ugly pictures

38. And we dragged the people against their will to it
At the hands of villains brash with it

39. And we installed rough guardians
On what the nature has of boldness in it

40. And we made lawful something which is the tomb of a people
The Place were revelation came from bushes

41. We force it down hot, then give
Fine descriptions on what is distasteful

42. And the idol of a “treaty” was contracted so it was
Like prohibition of divorce from marriage

43. Made in the capitals by an untrustworthy
Man known for his evil veterbrates

44. You smell wine being concluded
And starting from it drunkenness shows

45. And its inscribed black text signals
Humiliation and darkness without a glimmer

46. And a permit only strong ones
Tailor like mud tablets smoothed by a smoother

47. And an “alliance” I do not know are they serious
Or is it a jest from clowns

48. We have a right to hope by petition
While their falsehood is executed by force

49. I do not know any ally ever
Threatened by ally with invasion

50. Palestine, I advise you not to become
Like we have been in position of winds

51. And not to put your affairs in a panel
That provides or reduces arbitrarily

52. And forbid that there be extended to you from us
The hands of those differing over gambling arrows

53. How many ruinous have hurt us seriously
Claiming to heal wounds

54. And I speak the truth – how many “solutions”
Forbidden, composed in permitted form

55. “We circumambulate what we circumambulate then we come
To a house” built on “suggestion”

56. Bringing out a thousand faces from one speech
And creating a thousand meanings for one term