عمّانُ كمْ ضاقتْ بلادٌ بالوَرى

ووَسعْتِ يا صَدْرًا تعمَّدَ بالسَّما

O Amman, how the lands have narrowed with people

Yet you have expanded, O chest determined with resolve

لكِ يا مَلاذَ العَينِ رأفةُ راحمٍ

إنْ أدمَعَتْ؛ سَبْعٌ تجلَّتْ بلْسَما

For you, O refuge of the eye, is the mercy of the Merciful

If tears fell; seven appeared as healing

فاضَ السَّبيلُ على ثَراكِ وحُورُهُ

كنَّ الشّواهدَ إذْ جَرَى مِنهُ الحِمَى

The torrent overflowed upon your soil and its maidens

Were like martyrs when the fever flowed from it

هاؤمْ شقيقاتُ العروبةِ في ضَنَى

أضنينَ مَنْ بَذَرَ الربيعَ وبَرعَما

Sisters of Arabism are in agony in mourning

Mourning those who sowed the spring and made it grow

مُدنٌ كأنَّ الموتَ سِرُّ هوائِها

والناسُ في موتٍ كأنّهمُ الدُّمَى

Cities where death seems the secret of their air

And people in a death as though they are the blood