ما أنسَ لا أنسَ الجزيرة ملعباً
للأنس تألفه الحسانُ الخرَّدُ
Whatever I forget, I shall not forget al-Jazira, a playground
I do not forget, I do not forget the island as a playground
for delight, frequented by beautiful, bashful maidens.
For intimacy, adorned by beautiful greenery
يجري النسيم بغضها وغديرها
فيهزُّ رمحٌ أو يسلُّ مهنَّد
The breeze courses through its tender growth and its pool,
The breeze runs through its hatred and stream
so a spear is shaken or an Indian-steel sword unsheathed.
Shaking a spear or unsheathing a sword
ويزينُ دمعُ الطلّ كلَّ شقيقةٍ
كالخدِّ دبَّ بهِ غدارٌ أسودُ
And tears of dew adorn every anemone,
And the morning dew adorns every daisy
like a cheek over which a black betrayer has crept.
Like a cheek kissed by a perfidious black lover
Sol 6.1