Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

The Joyful Dove

 

Wash your feet with perfume,

O joyful dove of the forest,

For the thyme has blossomed,

And hidden its fragrance in a magical flask

Guarded on the trunk of an almond tree.

Bring me a handful of your beauty

That I may conquer nature with it,

And trample the meadows.

Bring me a strand of your hair,

That I may sew with it a dress

At whose hem the roses will commit suicide!

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