1. Visit a bed where John lay in darkness
So the nobles of Freij lamented his death

2. A sermon that made the hearts of the honoured crack
And the grieving of the eminent was prolonged at his place

3. The responsibilities of matters weep for him as
A brother of the bereaved waters his grave with his tears

4. A pillar in Beirut collapsed and crumbled
So a quarter of Damascus shook from its collapse

5. And he rests in a tomb whose historian called out
"Oh God's mercy, settle over his resting place."