1. Its lands are a garden never devoid
Of the righteous, though empty of ascetics.

2. Its essence is wholesome, so a breeze from its soil
Is a fragrance beyond passing clouds.

3. It attained the two beauties of gentleness and
Of bashfulness in the valleys and dunes.

4. Who has a draft from Zahleh for the longing one
To quench the longing from the usual thirst?