1. Since he left, I've yearned for his affection
As friendship departed and he grew cold

2. I grieve the time when we were immersed
In bliss - how swiftly it passed away!

3. Blessed was that era, blessed the lands
And people! What joys there were for me

4. Every elegiac line, had I recited,
Would have shone brilliantly with eloquence

5. A people whose tongues failed to describe them
And whose eloquence rendered them speechless

6. I was forced to leave them, still regretting
Our parting, still aching with sorrow

7. O dwellers of the camp, will you not take pity
And return me to the homelands generously?

8. Then I would rejoice, reveling in your company
And the bounty of a land whose seas engulfed it

9. A home that became earth's marvel, refusing
To emulate any city beneath the heavens

10. Quenching Aleppo, you are matchless, earning
An eminent station among all countries

11. You've become a beauty mark on the cheek
Of the world, adorning its smile

12. Thus I choose none but you, even if the lands
Became fragrant with musk and their waters, balsam

13. Take, morning breeze, fine fragrance from me
To her, sincerely and deliberately

14. Call her the home of love, be generous
And greet her each morn, then greet again