1. I unleash swift steeds forged of iron
Like flocks of eagles over the lands

2. Ships that cruise the earth's valleys
Bearing those who come and those who go

3. Telling tales of your ingenious people
To cities and villages far and wide

4. Of how the mind was created
From base clay, neither base nor sublime

5. Instilling in lifeless matter powers and senses
Now galloping, now taking flight

6. Shouting odes and melodies
While singers have passed away

7. Rome, mother of art, envied you
As did her rival, Athens

8. Your glory towered above theirs
Your beauty surpassed their charms

9. We came under your protection, so favor us
We blessed your soil, so bless us

10. Why would one with blossoming roses
Offer them to you today?

11. It is not like a camel offered for slaughter
Nor steeds presented to executioners

12. But you have brothers who adore us
For their sake, all who dwell here

13. They loved us as their own
And made us forget our people with their kindness

14. We pledged to them as they pledged to us
Neither betrayed, nor were oaths broken

15. If they were angry with the world, so were we
If they were pleased with the world, so were we

16. A caller summoned them to excellence and virtue
From the valley, so they unanimously responded

17. Would the people of the valley abandon their neighbor?
God forbid this should ever be!

18. Never did I meet a cowardly Saturnian
Nor a miserly Saturnian

19. Consider how the peak of Sheeha rises
Rivaling Taurus in majesty

20. From it came commandments
And in it we find the charitable

21. On its slopes and terraces
Beauty dazzles the beholder

22. Never did I see its equal in kindness
Nor its equal in triumphant conquest

23. O lions of liberated Lebanon
Our brothers and sons of our father

24. Your era boasted with pride and the bones
Of the dead were humbled by your making

25. People compete to seek high ambitions
Yet you were the foremost contenders

26. Pharaohs built pyramids that still stand
To tell how oppressors acted

27. And how the individual made multitudes miserable
Blotting out thousands to prove himself

28. While you built an academy on Mount Sheeha
To remain a refuge for the wretched

29. Dawn smiles down upon it
And returns reassured and serene

30. Passing, filling the valley with praise
For you, the desolate and the sorrowful

31. I see two rains racing in generosity
The rain from the sky and you, the benefactors

32. If clouds conceal the sun from us
They cannot dim God's light within us

33. Or bar the path of goodness from you
Or close the hands of those who give

34. I found love of goodness within a person
If it's lost, he becomes mere clay

35. Thorns shriveled in the fields from stinginess
Living dejected and morose

36. While roses thrived by giving their fragrance
Take your place among the generous!

37. I asked poetry to praise you, but rhyme
Told me it had already chosen you

38. A Lord will reward them for the destitute
Requiting the charitable for their goodness