1. The days of woe have returned, so return
And lament it, O bird, above the branch

2. Your singing has turned the nights into wailing
So go back...go back from twittering

3. The garden of wishes has become desolate
It is now barren plains amid barren plains

4. Time wears down all the free
So He is among them like Messiah among Jews

5. Oh Lebanon! How much you cried and still cry
Between a past era and a new one

6. You cried then and here you are crying
Over its misery despite its familiarity

7. My yearning for your songs, if not for
A blade among you unleashed for threats

8. And for the sky clear in you, if not for
The clouds of gloom it holds today

9. And for the pure water of roses, if not for
The poisons of threats that have flowed in it

10. And for the wind from your peaks, if not for
The breaths of corruption among the peaks

11. And for the sea on your shores, if not for
That it has slept with intense enmity

12. And for the defiant cedar, if not for
They burdened it with the humiliation of prostration

13. They placed it under the triangle, between the
White, between the blood and the iron

14. My craving for the meadows that rise and set
Devoid except for frustration

15. The inhabitants evacuate them and the face of
The land is vast towards the distant tomb

16. Of a girl, a boy, a rich man, a poor one, a father and a newborn
As birds evacuate the land when it's flowers have withered

17. Or as gazelles flee a pond
When the wolf has come for the flowers

18. They left it with tears filling the valleys
For its groves, and flames filling the livers

19. And if the deaf could hear a sound
They would scream aboard the silent ships: Return!