1. I see a ray stretching over Lebanon
I thought it was the light of the Lebanese sun

2. It guided souls so their principles stumbled not
And purified science, unstained by confusion

3. Drawing either inspiration that overflows as guidance
In an institute filled with the beauty of the spirit

4. Like electricity in its highest qualities
A spirit veiled behind the shining pillar

5. Its children filled youth like birds wandering
In the meadow below the shades of the potteries

6. It rested in a shelter and settled smoothly
A shade for one with thirst or a rose for the thirsty

7. When it burst forth from its nest in fragments
You saw it swiftly following the eagles

8. It wore two wings of religion and manners
And the secret to the bird is the two racing wings

9. Your world has two things: morals and knowledge
So refine the mind and morals at once

10. An eagle that crossed the air out of reach
And a flame from an ample and close ray

11. The air - its wideness is for resolve, its narrowness
And nothing is narrow except for the fading and weak

12. The two images: a ray in its joys
And the bird outpacing in the air the same

13. Both of them you are: a ray and wings
Like electricity in secret and declaration

14. You made it a sublime power so it blazed
As if its symbol deserves Lebanon