1. A city like a blossoming flower
Scented with perfume in every drop

2. Its magical banks fluttering
The heart of the Nile beats in its chest

3. You'd think it a rhythmic song
Its beautiful melody over its river

4. Its obscure, unbound tunes
Echo back from its birds

5. Its radiant, wine-like sunset
Spilling the cup of light at its full moon

6. The laden branch leaning over it
And the grape cluster shading it

7. The idle moon hovering over it
Composing from time to time

8. A poem inspired by God
To delight the artist and poet

9. A city of magic, marvelous resting place
Captivating to the beholder’s eye

10. Where rooms of gold sleep
In blossoming, verdant gardens

11. Dawn illuminated it, and when night fell
It was lit up by brilliant souls

12. Beauty endowed it with its gifts
And love adorned it with its images

13. Oh, the sweet chatterer, who could love it?
Oh, that gazelle with the bracelet!

14. The laden branch leaning over it
And the grape cluster shading it

15. The idle moon hovering over it
Composing from time to time

16. A poem inspired by God
To delight the artist and poet

17. Damascus and Lebanon are intoxicated by it
And the fragrant passing cities

18. Its love-smitten boys surround it
With playful, carefree coquetry

19. Love's artist impressed himself on it
And adorned it with sparkling eyes

20. His lovelorn youth poured out
Onto its precious, free banks

21. Oh, that bliss - what is its business
Embracing paradise in its singing?

22. A city whose tune the musician struck
On the tinkling lyre's string

23. The fleeting, seizing vanish into it
Silver ingots from its secret

24. The healing balm flowed generously
With abundant grace from its rivers

25. The idle moon hovering over it
Composing from time to time

26. A poem inspired by God
To delight the artist and poet