1. You left your home and settled in a new home
Alas, no rest for the lofty star

2. Dews wet the sand and steam rises
As iron laments swimming in the sea

3. Yesterday you sailed calling from ship decks
Today Damascus welcomes you with lights

4. They claimed the journey was but a night and day
Yet life itself is but a night and a day

5. Travel far and wide across the lands
For the new moon is accustomed to voyages

6. The earth is vast with abundant wonders
Yet life is short and years fly by

7. O rider of oceans with roaring waves
Does the tumultuous sea avenge you?

8. The spheres are forever moving and returning
And their ruin lies in breaking orbit

9. They contained the souls of both worlds
Among the heavenly maidens was a traitor

10. With will and daring against its currents
For all affairs are but currents

11. Flowing steadily, reins held gracefully
By the kindness of the Majestic Ordainer

12. In a revolution, friends are powerless
Without choice over its course

13. While his affection warms their hearts
When aloof, it burns their chests like fire

14. I gather pearls in my conscience
Arranging them in verses to provoke envy

15. The spheres dance and winds make music
The night is dark and meteors blaze

16. Until I arrived at dawn to the villages
Radiant, as if we were moons

17. Our faces preceded the morning breeze
Dewy, praising the journey

18. A people, the noble Arabs, born
Of Mudar's womb, her slit and linea nigra*

19. They descended upon fragrant Lebanon
And settled, where settlers roamed

20. O King of Mountains, Lebanon, greetings
Lofty peaks honor and exalt you

21. With pine and oak carrying my greetings
And springs abundant as the Gardens

22. Whoever left home met you, their home
Virtue's plain, a land for the noble

23. Left loved ones and aspirations behind
Finding them in you, their place of banner's raising

24. For those who visit your meadows
Eyes with luscious lashes so fresh

25. The Euphrates flowed with tears
As if it were copious weeping from joy

26. If only time could protect us from its events
A while together, with love and settling

27. It took love from Ali and his son*
While ideas unite through passion