1. A good late night vigil illuminates minds
In nights that bring deep sleep

2. Purify your mind with wakefulness, and you will know
The merit of the path you have taken

3. Whoever sees their thoughts as foully ill
Will heal the sick with that cure

4. In nights where thoughts are pictured
Wakefulness pictures an alien disease

5. O ally of wakefulness, if you are lightning
The sleepers see you only a little

6. Constant vigil and a gentle heart
Nearly overflowed were it not for its veil

7. A heart melting between ribs
And a yearning longing for those hills

8. The clouds of eyelids pour tears
From eyes in which it's as if there are floods

9. And a lover forcibly led to separation
You see him thus a humble slave

10. O God, make me forget the covenant of Lebanon
And quenched my wakefulness with breadth and length

11. How many messengers have I sent with peace
Yet their hearts spurned me though mine was the messenger

12. With a valley where bells recite
A beautiful melody and prolonged praise

13. And a monastery adorning monks of devotion
With prayer that adorns the Gospel

14. And a place where a melodious voice chants
Glorify, glorify the Majestic God

15. Melodies that they say cured a sick man
And a prayer that they say revived a slain man

16. My eyes have never seen such beauty
And thus never seen such loveliness