1. My manners have reached the extent of manners
This prince, stand at the door with us

2. If not for the majesty of his gray hair on his throne
I would have boasted to him my youth

3. A country you were raised in and came as its messenger
I send you a greeting of welcome

4. Two glories were added to its history
Of pride and admiration

5. My lineage, when the two sons were in awe of me
And your eloquence shook him in wonder

6. Either Lebanon bent its lofty cedar
To revere the Nile without fault

7. Or the light is a beacon but its spirit
Is water rippling in the shade of the forest

8. O poet of the destitute, here I am
With my torments, my voice and my clothes

9. Tattered as if their threads were ripped
Not fit to be worn for generosity

10. When you described misery, longing pulled me
Agitated by that description, all suffering

11. And when I come to my children, I come to
Pain hidden in the folds of shyness

12. You fed them with your wailing, it owns their souls
My manners, their food and drink

13. They find your passion in adversities as though
They touch you at every tribulation

14. They saw you in Denmark, so they saw
The right of the weak hanging on necks

15. And when you eulogized as you eulogized Muhammad
They prostrated as if the sheikh was at the altar

16. Why don’t you describe happiness for us sometime
Imagination is some of its charming beauty

17. If not for fearing tomorrow I would have toyed with it
And removed my hands from it on the day of my reckoning

18. Poetry you are emotions and composition
Mold it the jewelry of the soul and intellect

19. He who possessed eloquence is able
To create the blind out of the sighted

20. Lebanon greeted you, and every dear greeting
Is all that my palm can hold for loved ones

21. Who said when you praised him you shook him
That praise shakes the peaks of mountains

22. Exalt through it a country that established its majesty
Between solid ground and clouds

23. I love and treasure the king of beauty
With the finest air and loved ones

24. All heritage is ours if the youth is related
Good air and noble ancestry

25. Close your eyelids if you want others
We are like Egypt, the watering places of foreigners

26. We spent the night as the outcast spent the night misguided
Tempted in the desert by every mirage

27. If my people protected me and protected their glory
Love of loftiness would have carried my mount

28. Hardship took off all its clothes from me
When I took off its Bedouin cloak

29. The sheikh of rhetoric came to the fever hospital
So Lebanon returned the sheikh of youth

30. Give life with greetings and say to it
Lebanon is a content neighbor, promise to return

31. It gifted you its medal so carry with it
A memento of loyalty to Egypt and literature