1. The rain clouds watered Aleppo yet did not forget
To nourish her outskirts and visit her early

2. She is the familiar, the accustomed, the home
I chose from the best of what I could choose

3. I spent my life with her and life is white
And I enjoyed living there and living is green

4. For us there are summer resorts and squares
And in her yellow air, horizons and dwellings

5. Encampments of the distinguished where they gathered
To recognize favors and reject wrongs

6. You see various soils so a sandy soil
Rivals in beauty a gray dusty soil

7. And gardens where amidst the plants' growth
Clings preserved light, harvested and ambergris scented