poetry · Issue No. 4, April 1950 · p. 25

Beautiful Verse: The Nightingale's Homeland

Said Akl

الشعر الجميل - موطن البلبل · سعيد عقل

Tomorrow, O nightingale, when you sing,
and the boulders grow tender at the song,

and in its thicket a branch bends
toward the strains, and an ear of wheat twists its neck,

and hill draws close to hill,
drunken, asking after its own state,

and it is said: From where? — then say: I came from
two eyes than which none is more radiant, none more beautiful.

From the collection "Rindala"

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