1. If her cheek's rose or her glance smiles
My heart flutters here and there

2. As a bee freely roams Lebanon's meadow
With the sweetest nectar in its mouth

3. O you who created this beauty and made
Adam's Eve so fair, tell us

4. Why you created these charmers and said "He who
Sees a woman and desires her has sinned"

5. You created us to love beauty in all its forms
Never can our nature change

6. An effect exists only due to its cause
Relate them then detach and counsel us

7. You made our hearts love beauty
Without a pretty face our love wouldn't be

8. Remake our nature so we don't love our beauties
Otherwise, Lord, this is impossible

9. If you wish, deprive us of the whole universe
But we cannot live without the feminine

10. I see beauty as the origin of love in every mind
With body, image, sculpture and song

11. I'm no infidel for speaking the truth
Without passion and beauty, life loses charm

12. They refined hearts and cultivated
Minds till we loved civilization