1. Bring me the pledges of loyalty, and take mine,
And here is my right hand reaching out for yours.

2. I swear by my love for you, He who created passion
And melted my soul in the flames of your beauty,

3. I will remain loyal as Majnun did,
And promise the days that I will love only you.

4. For it is yours, do with it as you please.
And tomorrow when it is time to say farewell,

5. You may leave, though it saddens me to see you go.
I will await our parting with bewildered affection,

6. My confused heart clinging to memories of you.
I will gather up the dust as if inhaling the breezes

7. That once carried the scent of your presence.
I will gaze upon the dwellings,

8. And nourish my eyes on your beauty once found there.
I see my cradle, the nest of my childhood,

9. My dolls, my playgrounds, through visions of you.
And chaste companions pure as the dew,

10. Or roses - flowers and thorns for me now.
Baghdad, if I must say farewell and depart,

11. Summoned away by duties beyond our control,
I will steady myself in the sedan chair and weep

12. Eyes that never knew tears until loving you.
The dawn of departure will seem bittersweet,

13. Palm trees swaying farewell in the winds of dawn.
Your fragrance will drift on the breeze as if

14. The breath of life itself were imbued with your essence!
And if I go, though longing still pulls me back,

15. To dwell in Paris, not able to see you,
My love for you will sustain me, your memory my goal,

16. To live in remembrance of you my sole joy.