1. سقى حلباً ساقي الغمامِ ولا ونى

    يروحُ على أكنافها ويبكّر

    May the clouds' cupbearer water Aleppo and never tire,

    Visiting her outskirts in the evening and early morning.

  2. هي المألفُ المألوفُ والموطنُ الذي

    تخيرتهُ من خير ما أَتخير

    She is the familiar haunt and the homeland that

    I chose from the best of all I might choose.

  3. صحبتُ لديها الدهرَ والدهرُ أبيضٌ

    ونادمتُ فيها العيشُ والعيشُ أخضر

    I kept company with Time there, and Time was white,

    And there I drank with Life, and Life was green.

  4. لنا في بعاذينٍ مصيفٌ وَمَرْبَعٌ

    وفي جوَ باصفراءَ مبدىً ومحضر

    We have in Baʿadhin a summer retreat and a spring abode,

    And in Basafra's valley, an open-country retreat and a settled home.

  5. رباعُ بني الهمّاتِ حيث تشاءموا

    لِيُعْرفَ معروفٌ ويُنكر منكر

    The dwellings of the sons of high resolve, where they settled in Syria,

    So that good may be recognized and evil condemned.

  6. ترى ترباً شتى فتربٌ مصندلٌ

    ينافسه في الحسن تُرْبٌ مزعفر

    You see varied soils: one is sandalwood-scented,

    Rivaled in beauty by soil infused with saffron.

  7. وروضاً تلاقى بين أثناءِ نبته

    مُمَسَّك نَوْرٍ يُجْتَنى ومعنبر

    And a meadow where, amid the folds of its vegetation, mingle

    Musk-scented blossoms for picking and ambergris-scented ones.