ANemos

Sidi Bou Said

In my big heart, a temple for beauty

Life built using dreams and imagination

So I recited the prayers humbly,

I burned the incense, and lit the candles

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The magic of life is eternal and never dies

So why complain about darkness that would disappear

The morning comes, and the seasons would pass

A spring will come, once another elapses

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Wounds be silent and sadness be quiet

The time of crying and of madness has ended

The morning sun sneaked from behind the mountain peaks

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From behind the darkness, and the sound of water

The spring of life and the morning invited me

What a beautiful calling, its echo shook my heart

I have no reason to stay on top of these foothills

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Goodbye! Goodbye, O! You mountains of worries

O! You fogs hardship, O! You valley of doom

My boat has sailed through the high tide

And I spread the garrisons, so Goodbye! Goodbye!

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Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
April 19, 1933