1. Take me back to the Nile, don’t ask about the fatigue
Yearning folded my ribs, it’s not a game

2. In my home I have homes, whenever my eyes wander
Their lights sway in the gloom of my affection

3. And when memories of my loved ones come to mind
I feel the waves playing above the sea with me

4. An elder whose dignity is the honor of existence
Others whose blood composed my lineage

5. Friends whose generosity continuously flows
If they speak to you, you'd think it was a prophet's voice

6. My mother who gifted my words their glow
Her mercy comes from a fertile spring

7. And if my father was absent from life's path
She also took on his burdens and duties

8. And the people in my homeland, yearning rocks them
As the breeze shakes the stalk of wheat

9. A neighbor loves his neighbors out of affinity
And he may love them dearly without a reason

10. People’s best quality is their simplicity
But their essence is more precious than gold

11. Take me back to the Nile, don’t ask about the fatigue
My heart yearns with the yearning of a graceful gazelle

12. Whoever carries love of homeland like me
Refuses absence even in the shooting stars

13. My wounds blazed into fires stoked
By the enemy against my heart and in my nerves

14. We were a sky that rained goodness on the countries
Like drops of blood pouring down

15. Our homeland was dignity and pride
Its day never disgraced by the usurper

16. An exemplar for nations unlike us
In dreams, knowledge, morals and literature

17. The treasure was the complete human
Did not flee or disappear from the circle of determination

18. And the Nile, when it overflowed, its streams irrigated us
When it receded, the palm trees yielded their fruit

19. Love is the most wondrous thing in existence we spin
A thread of sun or a drop from the clouds

20. The excellent grapevines in the trees, their glow
I grew with all kinds of generosity and grapes

21. And people's bodies grew tall when they chanted
To the sun - come, rise up, approach here!

22. It came shyly, puzzled, asking them
Who is it on the Nile, my loved ones, calling to me?

23. What has afflicted people's conscience in a
Difficult time, with disease from hyenas

24. This is a strange time, how can we know it
Or how can it know us from the throngs of eras

25. Return my youth to me, girded
With love and reunion, not promises in books

26. Remove what the heart encounters of troubles
Wash the face of the colors of sadness and anger

27. For I will return as I once was in the time
Of youth’s pride, the master of art and literature