هذي الديار ديار بيت الدين

فتمتعي يا مهجتي وعيوني

These abodes are the abodes of Beiteddine;

so rejoice, O my heart and my eyes.

دارٌ بها طاف الصفاءُ فأصبحت

تهدي السرور لقلب كل حزين

A dwelling where serenity has roamed, and which now

bestows joy on every sorrowful heart.

يا بيت دين المجد لا زال السنا

أبدا الزمان لديك خير قرين

O Beiteddine of glory, may radiance remain

throughout all time your finest companion.

والسعد لم يبرح ببابك مشرقاً

بالعزّ والتأييد والتأمين

And good fortune has never ceased to shine at your gate,

with honor, support, and security.

حيُيتِ من دارٍ شذاءٌ ربوعها

يشفي فوادي من اليم شجوني

Hail to you, a dwelling whose grounds are fragrant,

healing my heart of the pain of my sorrows.

واهتزت الأغصان في جنباتها

مثل العذارى للهوى تدعوني

And the branches swayed within her precincts,

like maidens calling me to love.

والسر مرخ تحت سندس ثوبه

عطفاً حكى اعطاف حور العين

And the secret [perhaps 'the cypress'] lets droop beneath its robe of fine silk

a flank resembling the flanks of wide-eyed houris.

في جنةٌ والماءُ فيها كوثرٌ

ونسيم عرف رياضها يحييني

In a paradise, where the water is Kawthar,

and the fragrant breeze of her gardens revives me.

أشكو لها ألم الفراق فتشتكي

مثلي وحسن لقاتها يشفيني

I lament to her the pain of parting, so she laments

as I do; the beauty of meeting her heals me.

إن دنست عيني برؤية غيرها

وطهرتها بصبيب ماء جفوني

If I sullied my eye by looking at another,

I cleansed it with the streaming water of my eyelids.

يا صاح قد صدح الهناءُ بروضها

وافتر ثغر جمالها الميمونِ

O friend, joy has sung aloud in her garden,

and her beauty's blessed lips have parted in a smile.

والورق غنت في الرياض فارقصت

دوح الربى بالسجع والتلحينِ

And the doves sang in the gardens, setting dancing

the hills' great trees with cooing and melody.

فانهض لدى فوّارها وخذ المنى

وامزج كؤوسك بالصفا واسقيني

So rise beside her gushing fountain and attain your desires,

and mix your cups with purity, and give me drink.

واسجد لدى سلسالها وارشف هناً

ان كان دينك بالمحبة ديني

And prostrate yourself beside her flowing spring, and sip bliss,

if your faith in love is the same as mine.

واشفي الجوى بسبيلها الصافي وذق

شهداً يعيض عن ابنة الزرجونِ

And heal love's burning with her clear fountain, and taste

honey that takes the place of the daughter of the vine.

بضياءِ كوكب ربها بسمائها

أهدي الهناءَ لها كما تهديني

By the radiance of her lord's star in her sky,

I offer her joy, as she offers it to me.

ربُّ المحامد والمفاخر سيّدٌ

أحيى العفاة من الندى بتهتون

Master of praiseworthy deeds and glories, a lord

who revived gift-seekers with a downpour of bounty.

الضيغم الشهم البشير أبو الثنا

مفني العدا بحسامه المسنونِ

The lion, the gallant Bashir, Abu al-Thana,

destroyer of foes with his sharpened sword.

مولىً براحته الندى وبنانها

ضيم الحسود وراحة المسكين

A lord with bounty in his palm, and in its fingers

humiliation for the envious and relief for the poor.

ان حمّت الحاجات احكمُ حازمٍ

أو دارت الهيجا فليث عرين

If needs grow pressing, the wisest of resolute men;

or, when battle rages, a lion in his lair.

نادى العلى والدهر يعبس وجهه

فاتت إليه بسرها المكنونِ

He summoned glory while Time's face was frowning,

so it came to him with its hidden secret.

يهنيك يا مولاي عودٌ أحمدٌ

والدهر طوع يديك كالمفتونِ

May a most praiseworthy return gladden you, my lord,

and Time is at your hands' command, like one bewitched,

مستغفراً عما جنى إذ لم يكن

أحدٌ سواك على العلى بامينِ

seeking forgiveness for what it did, since there was

no one but you who could be trusted with glory.

وربوع بيت الدين منك تشرفت

إن المكان مشرفٌ بمكين

And Beiteddine's grounds have gained honor from you;

indeed, a place is honored by its distinguished occupant.

بشراك قد عاد الزمان لعهده

والخصم عاد بصفقة المغبونِ

Glad tidings for you: Time has returned to its former ways,

and the foe has returned with a cheated man's bargain.

فاسلم بخير سيادةٍ متمكنا

بذرى المعالي غاية التمكينِ

So live secure in the finest lordship, firmly established

on the summits of greatness, with the fullest mastery.