1. عَينُ البُرودِ بُرودُ عَيني

    إِن عَزَّ مَنظَرُ رَأسِ عَينِ

    Ayn al-Burud is the coolness of my eye,

    if the sight of Ras Ayn is hard to attain.

  2. فَلَوِ اِستَطَعتُ لَزُرتُها

    سَعياً عَلى رَأسي وَعَيني

    So, if I could, I would visit it,

    hastening on my head and my eye.

  3. أَرضٌ يُنَمِّقُ زَهرَها

    ما فاضَ مِن نَهرٍ وَعَينِ

    A land whose blossoms are adorned

    by the overflow of river and spring.

  4. وَيَظَلُّ يَرفُدُها السَحا

    بُ بِصَوبِ وَسَمِيٍّ وَعَينِ

    And the clouds keep nourishing it

    with early-season showers and unceasing rain.

  5. فَكَأَنَّ بَهجَةَ وَردِها

    شَمسٌ تُلاحِظُها بِعَينِ

    It is as though the splendor of its roses

    were a sun gazing at it with an eye.

  6. وَكَأَنَّ نَرجِسَ رَوضِها

    قَد صيغَ مِن وَرَقٍ وَعَينِ

    And it is as though its garden's narcissi

    had been fashioned from silver and gold.

  7. فَلَئِن ثَناني رَبعُها

    وَالضِدُّ يَرصُدُني بِعَينِ

    So even if its abode turns me back,

    and the foe watches me through a spy,

  8. لا أَنثَني عَنها وَلا

    أَرضى بِأَثرٍ بَعدَ عَينِ

    I will not turn away from it, nor

    be content with a trace after seeing the thing itself.