1. How sweet is childhood to Allah
It is the dream of life

2. An era like the diluted visions
Between the wings of slumber

3. It aspires to the world
And what is in it with a smiling eye

4. And it walks in its valleys
With a dreaming soul

5. Indeed, childhood fluctuates
In the heart of spring

6. Watered from the saliva of intimates
In the gentle dawn

7. The world sang songs to it
Of its love and affection

8. So it sympathized youthfully with
The dreams and light of life

9. Indeed, childhood is a
Poetic epoch in its feelings

10. its tears and joys
its ambitions and pride

11. It did not walk in the world of sorrows
misery and torment

12. So it sees on its lights what is
falsehood in reality