1. God gives and time is generous,
And so are the nights with joy renewed,

2. Though bitter was it, if God supports him,
Say of him in both abodes - he is fortunate!

3. You will find him gaining ranks and heights
Day after day, and pride increases,

4. Leave talking of singers and loving them -
With gaining glory it is not beneficial!

5. Man cannot reach the highest rank,
If his distraction is an idol and firebrands.

6. So restrain desire for the beautiful maidens, even if
Witnesses against you have been set up from the bending branches.

7. And turn your love from wine and drinking it -
No Arab youth has succeeded in honor being drunk!

8. None ascends in our time the peaks of glory,
And fame except the glorious and unique!

9. Like the climber to the highest summit with his effort -
Antoine Seurat, that praised lad!

10. His life’s ambition the most sublime rank,
So he triumphed with it, and it triumphed with new glory!

11. They have handed him the bow of authority, his palm -
So all said "Worthy and praiseworthy!"

12. Not everyone who sought the heights attained them,
And not everyone with a long hand grasped them!

13. But noble Antoine, refined of opinion,
His views always correct and judicious!

14. He aimed above the sky aspiring high,
And built the domes of glory wherever he wished!

15. For his glory is of two kinds, each one
Enough that he be called "son of the glorious!"

16. The glory of attainment after ancestral glory
That he gained before, from a father and ancestors!

17. Excuse me if our pens fall short
In praising you, O formidable one!

18. It is no praise to call the sun "sun"
And to say to the black "black"!

19. So I have made an excuse for my sin, and it is
The nature of the noble to pardon, not bind!