1. I went out as the dawn appeared, running
Towards the meadow's breeze and descending dew

2. What a wonderful meadow it is, adorned
With pearls and pearls that beautify

3. The chirping of birds and the crowing rooster
Echoing through it, everything lush and plentiful

4. The branches of the banana tree, whenever a bird alights
Greet it with applause as they sway

5. And on its trunk are beads that were like
Necklaces adorning it, as you know

6. Falling in love with it, the flowers crowded
To attain it, everything succeeding

7. Nature, how beautiful are your scenes that
I use as excuses to prolong my misery

8. Nature, woe is me! For I am not hearing
Where is this sound reaching my ears from?

9. Weeping! Is this garden really
My whole life of troubles and problems?

10. I came to live in the villages, who knows
That I have fallen into what I feared

11. For my eyes saw a beautiful girl
Her tears falling from her eyes

12. On her are signs of melancholy and misery
And indications that her heart is constricted

13. Staining her face while the drops under her
Dissolve the earth she sits on

14. Both her hands are outstretched in humiliation
Her eyelids on the horizon do not move

15. Yet I did not know what love was
And now I question myself about my beloved

16. My heart's darling, why are you like this?
Patience is best, not just enduring

17. Showing me that woe is recorded in her
And she said, as her sighs increased

18. In a voice forcefully suppressing fury
I see you are sympathetic, if you support me

19. And work for my happiness, o man
You have found me steadfast and courageous

20. But if you count me out, you are not courageous
Go away, leave me sorrowful

21. And if you want to blame, you are no faultfinder
You call me to show you a smile

22. While you are the source of my misery, o oblivious one
And in battle you defend me stubbornly

23. When you're the one who opposed and yielded to me
You call my heart to tenderness, yet I

24. Saw my heart pierced by your arrows
Enough! You are hard rock and your heart a boulder

25. You see your smiling mouth, who would cuddle?
So leave me, leave misery to sap my strength

26. And leave a blaze in the darkness flaming
And go in peace, if your cup is full

27. And taste it refreshed, not in suffering
Strange that you cry after laughing

28. And pour those painful tears
Maybe you saw truth embodied

29. So changed a heart that almost didn't
And now you want to know she

30. Who provoked you, so know it is I who confesses
I am the miserable flower, whose fragrance is wasted

31. And its petals wither from its sadness
Death's messenger saw it fearing his shadow

32. So lies in wait, unmoving
I am the branch in youth's bloom, cut down

33. By the woodcutter as he wails
I am green Tunisia, for how long

34. Will you persist in this lofty path's neglect?
It's as if you don't feel irritation when you see

35. Your country beset but unshaken
It's as if you disregard life and accept

36. Your life like a slave's, even aspiring to it
Don't you have the great soul? Do you see

37. Your hopes unmet or even imagine?
With resolve, firmness, unity and harmony

38. Your hopes are easy, happiness easier