1. You have not lost hope, nor has thought perished
You have shed an age and donned life

2. People live on through their souls
While you, through soul and memories, endure

3. Nobler in manner than China's creation
And the admired parable and acts of grace

4. Refined in literature, you do not err
Nations in it find narrators to recall

5. With such gentleness that when
Fate rebels, you become a conduit

6. To people when the horizon is auspicious
And patience in trying times and forbearance

7. Your faith is the faith of truth; my heart
Says "Here, O heart, is the truth - take!"

8. I was no slave to its traditions
Nor did I aspire to base acts

9. The closest thing to tempt me was a beam from Sirius
That had not yet reached all creatures

10. It lined my eyes with its colors
And imbued me with its alluring scents

11. A nation took wing under cover of night
On the wings of a falcon and resolve of heroes

12. And so replaced a world with a world
Its crumbling illusions scattered

13. A man is the making of a man in his shade
No overweening desires nor tyrants

14. I remembered: where is that straying knight
And the decisive blade amidst the glinting swords?

15. He who pursues his goal with resolve
And mounts terror into the wilderness

16. And the supreme call to its people
Requires knowledge and gathering fragments

17. A traditional message of love
Lebanon composed it and the righteous propagated

18. What a land where all its dreams
Are fragrant shrines of prayer

19. And every voice a yearning melody
Its bustle, murmurs and whispers

20. For you are this lofty mountain
Towering and conspicuous among the peaks

21. Desires hover over its shoulders
And the moons and planets stand still

22. And in the gesture of its curve appears
A myth resting in the bushes

23. So every branch tells a tale
Of it, and the burgeoning songs turn back

24. And every spring a story of passion
Intoxicated with generosity and sacrifice

25. Those raging storms and their defiance
Abasing the floods and foundations

26. Brought it woe, but it cast them
To the desert, routed, filling the emptiness

27. Greatest in the example you left behind
Blessed in the gifts of enlightenment you bestowed

28. Love saved you and brought you nearer
To your Lord in His luminous spheres