Take me in my dreams recurring   Cheerful as a childhood dance   Into one more taste of freedom   One more longing backward glance      In the sway of somber music   I shall never, never understand   Let me slip into the sweeter   Chorus of that other land      The gods love Nubia, the beautiful, the golden   The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed   The pain of Nubia is only of the moment   The desolate, the suffering, the plundered, the oppressed      The gods love Nubia, the glorious creation   The songs roll sweetly across the harvest plain   The tears of Nubia, a passing aberration   They wash into the river and are never cried again      The gods love Nubia, we have to keep believing   The scattered and divided, we are still it's heart   The fall of Nubia, ephemeral and fleeting   The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart