1. I bid you farewell before we meet
What have you left for my alluring dream?

2. Two nights have passed swiftly
And now I am deprived of your luminous company

3. When the stirred dust surrounds me
And the sun has shamefully disappeared

4. Why did you not stay to delight my eyes?
For a while, before vanishing in April

5. O you who left poetry a great treasure
And bequeathed what has enriched me

6. You are poetry and all that you embedded
In your living, honored book of my era

7. Alas! Despite that a poet is inspired
By your sublime ideals and brilliant path

8. O exceptional of the age whose faith
In truth has always gladdened my faith

9. O you who excelled in creating diverse worlds
And renewed what the artist has forbidden

10. O you whom genius saw as its equal
In creation, morals and benevolence

11. O you who depicted the images of life
Wondrously with feeling and passion

12. O you whom nature loved as it loves itself
In its spiritual kingdom

13. O he who refines etching and oversees it
The orphan of melodies and colors

14. O he whose noble feats and pride
Are like the feats of lights in Lebanon

15. And moves thousands of feelings after
They died of deception and confusion

16. And purifies the new generation with his poetry
From every sorcery and blasphemy

17. O you whom I never bid farewell
As you occupy the dearest place to me

18. And though life betrays us, never shall I betray him
Except for my tear and intense ardor