1. الأَرضُ أُمُّ بَناتِها الشَجَرُ

    وَالغَيمُ ثَديٌ لِبانُهُ المَطَرُ

    The earth is a mother whose daughters are the trees.

    And the cloud is a breast whose milk is rain.

  2. وَالقَضبُ أَوراقُها مَعاجِرُها

    عَلى وُجوهٍ عُيونُها الزَهَرُ

    And the boughs—their leaves are their headscarves,

    Over faces whose eyes are blossoms.

  3. فَاِعتَصِرِ اللَهوَ بِالصَبوحِ فَقَد

    اَصبَحَتِ المُعصِراتث تَنعَصِرُ

    So wring out pleasure with the morning draught, for

    the rain-laden clouds are now being wrung out.