1. I spoke to myself, arousing its passions:
Will our country restore its days?

2. O my soul, life is full of wishes and desires,
Why care if you attain them?

3. Youth and my ignorance of its arrogance
Will fold life, ruining its dreams.

4. I call out my wishes, and if I'm fortunate, it's enough;
If not, at least my soul has healed its pain.

5. The true pleasure of life lies in itself alone;
Souls only imagine their fantasies.

6. Those towering countries, their mountains
Have firmly planted their feet in the ground.

7. Standing with pride, rising up
To the sky, cloaked in their clouds.

8. Their greatness speaks of their summits,
Feeling their rocks and gravel.

9. When they walk through the valleys facing them,
And when they stretch out before the plains,

10. Time stands before you, relating their glory,
And their majesty walks before them.

11. Those lands with healing waters,
Quenching thirst, never stingy with their streams.

12. Bubbling above the rocks, wandering,
Among the grass, like birds in rows.

13. I walked among their angry livestock
On the vast desert plains.

14. And I walked among their pure meadows
Smiling at their roses and fresh blooms.

15. Those flowering lands, their shining stars
Reveal them and dispel their darkness.

16. Weaving garlands of glory,
Singing praises in tuneful harmony.

17. Their beauty, majesty and harmony -
If only my people understood their harmony!

18. Those lands whose history
Recorded pages of glory of their people.

19. Building amazing monuments from the soil
Whose beauty time preserved.

20. They sailed the near and far seas,
And sought the sky, taming its spheres.

21. Lebanon, the mountain king, its cedars
Bent by storms, bowing their heads.

22. Home of the greatest giants, the refuge
That protected its kings and nobles.

23. O Immortal One who makes eras pass by,
Your memory fills the years.

24. I protected your glory from harm
And for you is eternal life without end.

25. Those lands whose beauty I recalled
Despite my love for them during their distress.

26. May He who brought them sickness heal them
If He but listens to their complaint.

27. God ennobled them and sent down His revelation
Exalting the station of Christ among them.

28. My pact with Him is the religion of love,
Why has dissent conquered their peace?

29. Those lands - how excellent are their people,
When I recall their nobility among all people.

30. In vain have our desires divided us,
Our souls do not sanction shaming them.

31. Those lands - I have not forgotten their women,
The meadows suffer when I forget their doves.

32. Who nurtured their children in mercy,
And cared for their orphans in hardship.

33. Who fed their hungry and clothed their bare,
And healed their sick and their pain.

34. By God, no revival occurs in lands
Until women desire to rise up.

35. Call out your wishes - good fortune will come to you
And time will fulfill their dreams.

36. Those lands - he who leads the old glory
Will restore their lost youth.

37. The people are the greatest conquering force,
Trampling the stars if they dare resist.

38. Some nations have reached the highest peak,
Where I saw their kings become servants.

39. Others have sunk to the depths of misery,
Prolonging their slumber in stillness.

40. Those lands will not be honored
Until their people refine their rulers.