1. These are the dwellings where we delighted and lived,
And the horizons of love that warmed us,

2. And the gardens of life's hopes and its serenity,
And the sanctuary of the peace of our hearts and our bliss.

3. Or do you remember the days when we reveled
In the passion of love in our youth?

4. The days when we frolicked in the meadows of our love,
Bending our chests and plucking pomegranates.

5. The days when we roamed in the gardens of knowledge without
A care to embitter the cup of our joy.

6. The universe smiled around us and its sky
Was a gorgeous blue that we adored.

7. The stars watched over us as if drunk
On the wine of our love.

8. Our nights passed, and with them their magic,
As if the days of our joy had never been.

9. Until God, in His kingdom, decreed
That none would guard us but He.

10. Yesterday we knew not sorrow,
Today it stays with us and will not leave.

11. Such is this life, these are its ways,
Its nature changes not, nor we.

12. O lands of the East, you are dear to me
And my love for you is firmly rooted.

13. In you I first knew light, in my tender youth,
And that was enough to acquaint me.

14. You it was who taught me, in my mother's lap,
Goodness and benevolence in my childhood days.

15. Was it not beneath your sky that as a child I passed,
A time glorying over all other eras?

16. Twenty years in the gardens of my youth
You showered on me roses and basil.

17. And today, my homeland, as my youth
Fades and its darkness starts to shroud me,

18. And the gloom of life spreads its veil over me,
The time of my joy for happiness is gone.

19. I cast a critical eye on my life
And found it decked in the ornaments of sadness.

20. And I knew that man is deluded by it
Whenever it brings him sorrows.

21. So farewell, my country! I shall not
Love living a life brimming with grief.

22. Stop, let me bid farewell to the gardens in you
Where the breeze rustled the branches.

23. And the loved ones of my heart beneath your sky
Whom I'll never forget, and the homes that delighted us.

24. I will travel the world to a land
Where no noble soul sees disgrace.

25. And I will live by the yield of my hands
So no man can reproach me.

26. I will help my family, knowing their kindness,
For we should give in return for what we are given.

27. By God, I did not abandon my country willingly,
But my country called for my departure.

28. Prejudice took refuge there, lodging
In the core of hearts.

29. I cast the rod of authority but saw only
Souls aspiring for what is lofty.

30. And there the golden dreams of youth
That made Ibn Mousa the melodious forget his sorrows.

31. Perhaps one day they will come true. How wonderful
The day they come true and we rejoice!

32. I will return to the homelands in quest of nobility.
May God preserve the homelands through nobility!

33. I will see my country affectionate, and its sky
Even more luminous in its excessive joy.

34. God, if I live to see that day,
I will say: O Lebanon, home of my childhood!

35. Your revival, after your desolation, gladdens me.
This is but some of the dreams of youth.

36. If only youth could return rejuvenated!
I loved Lebanon and I will always love it,

37. And we will all love it throughout our lives.
If nothing remains of it but my father's bones,

38. Still for their sake I will love Lebanon.