1. O Bernas temple of poets
And sanctuary of priests and prophets

2. Death shall not vanquish you after life
Immortal you are in the conscience of eternity

3. Time has not seen your brilliant head decay
After this blossoming, this splendour

4. Indeed a cave on your land is glory
Immortalized by the geniuses of antiquity

5. You are wisdom in existence and light
For the minds of the ignorant and the wise

6. Dawn poured in its pillows only the red
Nectar of immortality for the poets

7. O Bernas, and the brides sing
In you the song of love and hope

8. Dawn poured in its pillows only the red
Nectar of immortality for the poets

9. Temple of art and beauty, peace be upon you
And peace be upon you, temple of the miserable

10. Glory prostrated beneath your arch intoxicated
Like the poor's prostration to the wealthy

11. Tell your children who drew
The flame of inspiration from you like electricity

12. Misery in my dust is only wealth
Take back glory from my seas of wealth

13. And let others search for a long time
For the secrets of wealth without gain

14. For you have many pearls of light as treasure
Scatter it on the path of magnanimity

15. The true poet is only a heart
That melted in love in the ray of sacrifice

16. He is a soul from the sky that drew
The wisdom of art from the brain of the sky

17. He is one who wants to undermine a pillar
Erected by the oppressions of leaders

18. And building the sublime on that pillar and rubble is stronger building
He is the lyre whose feelings secretly tell

19. The hymn of the strings the secret of light
So the assured light is in the poet's mind

20. Not in the stars or in intelligence
He is an eagle that has the wings of a God

21. Flying in the city of the miserable
Sprinkling a tear of grief on the earth

22. To heal the misery of the weak
He is the soul of Khalil in the bright star

23. That absorbs the element of brightness
To water the arts and revive

24. The dead poetry in the veins of the storytellers
O beloved of the country you have dispensed

25. A share of duties upon you to the sublime
So be resolute for success and complete

26. That journey my hopeful lad
You do not see after exile in the country

27. Worse misery, decay and torment
A breast that has nurtured a child

28. It is a chest whose limbs are shattered
Injustices have been absolved of them but

29. Denied they are of the innocent
Martyrs of the sublime passed away, and we remained

30. In a life full of ailments
If you peered from the loophole of death you see

31. The whispers of souls in the living
O tombs in which revelation has settled

32. None in you is bound to perish
Every generation bows before you in glory

33. And throws on you the flowers of eternity
O pinnacle of towers in the highest horizons

34. What is in the highest heavens?
And maidens of space, what have they confided

35. To you when you have adorned them in space?
Every night they visit and secretly

36. Converse with you at length in their endless bosoms
How Virgil, al-Maarri and Homer

37. In that airy place
With the blessed boy, Byblos rejoiced

38. And the lairs of beasts roared
From temples, the intoxicated gazes of priests

39. And prophets have peered
And poetry prostrated in prayer, the prostration

40. Of the barefoot believers and the loyal
O companion of visions, peace be upon you

41. And peace upon you, master of poets