1. If Damascus cheers: Mikhail, I will find her
As if it is fate that protects fate

2. When faces turned to despair, confused
Faith and victory shone on your face

3. You refrained from an invincible power
And perhaps some refrained though they knew not the value

4. Of strong will and necks bound in chains
Harsh with truth, but you do not break

5. You have traits of light and generosity
With a plume on the star perfumed and elegant

6. An opinion as if the daughters of the unseen love it
In it is the secret, the specters and the images

7. And courage towards the most high and truth terrifying
A lion the fangs and claws disown

8. Adorned by a handsome creator
With shyness so no arrogance or conceit

9. And no tyrant ransacked the lair of truth
Except that the tiger bared its fangs at him

10. And you did not appease the strong in their rule
Nor betray, the evilest of people are traitors

11. If news or mention of you stirs
Sunlit Aleppo cheers expectantly

12. You are the incense in its conscience's whispers
And you scent the air of the sleepless night

13. You purified love not out of fear or greed
Nor hatred of the hater and the hostile

14. And I did not choose you out of fear or flattery
Nor because I need your favors

15. But loyalty to your past graces
You are the treasure hoarded for homelands

16. And the bulbul is pleased at its perch
The secret of beauty. And others are pleased at the fruit