1. It watered Damascus, and days have passed in it
The rains pouring down, going and coming

2. From every dark thundercloud it has terror
Yellow it hides sometimes and sometimes reveals

3. And the plant embryos are still suckling
From the pregnant clouds in the barren plains

4. So my heart has not fulfilled its love for it
Nor fulfilled its passion for its valley

5. Nor consoled from the chains of its cypresses
Nor forgot my neighbor dwelling next to it

6. As if its rivers were returning prey
Daggers of mud in its outskirts

7. So may God not water my passions by seeing it
If it pleases my eye after losing it

8. Oh what misery when the barren rain poured on it
Crowning it and the bare leaves clothed it

9. And it embroidered velvet on the ground
He lights it with his valleys and shades it

10. A brocade that left no hidden beauty
But came to it and no embroidered part remains

11. It gestures to you with laughing eyes
As a branded eye weeps for it

12. And the stream pours for it pours
Its youth is complete as its hair turned white

13. It smells the leaves of pomegranate on its leaves
And the soft hand of the breeze waters it

14. It cleared its drinking so its lower part turned green
Until the shade overflowed and its heights turned white

15. And the branches clapped and danced
Speckling it with pearls from its necklaces

16. As if its necklaces were dancing Oh she is
And rhythm betrayed her so her jewels fell

17. And the eyes of the water poured its channels
And the eyes of the writhing poured its channels

18. And a branch met a similar branch and
Its moons responded to its moons

19. So for delight and hearing however it spurs
From its diverting cheek or shouting voice

20. When determination faltered from over love
A heart bent for it and a branch bent in it

21. Lovely when she brings her gaze for a while
To enliven the soul with her cheek it gives it life

22. A crime that her twisting lashes have committed
And a head whose arched brows subdued it

23. The cup kisses me in shyness whenever she drinks
So she compared it to what was in it

24. I long for my life with it for eternity
And its black nights remind me of whiteness from its nights

25. And we were in a paradise whose inhabitants
Never tasted misery and its songs never knew misery

26. A sky whose stream returns the humbled sun from us
And shows stars in its horizons

27. You see the full moons with it everywhere
Stretching the flowers to the stars seeking them with their hands

28. When we shake the branches to get its fruits
Its stars become firebrands on the ground

29. Of every yellow one luscious as water
You would think burning coal in its inflammation

30. Delicious in taste sweet to its consumer
Splendid in color adorned to its viewer

31. Oh would that I knew my friends in their distant land Not a band I will forget for all of time
I have talks and fondness after their absence

32. More recent to erase while my eye waters them
How many I have a companion who owes me

33. Great favors and kind acts I have not repaid
I parted from him against my will so a youth

34. Keeps me company, hiding me while I hide him
I was content with books after closeness so they disappeared

35. Until I was content with greetings in its margins
If one less worthy than I surpasses me, no wonder

36. He rises over the noble horses in their power
And scum rises over the water oh and there is Saturn

37. Hiding the stars' light as he is elevated
If it were a matter of fame based on fame

38. No band would have preceded me in its efforts
My indifference brings no shame to my manners

39. Rather that is shame on the world and its people