يا بارقَ الشَّامِ حيِّ الأثلَ والبانا

وانقُل حديثَك عن لُبنى ولُبنانا

O lightning of Syria, revive the ruins and the house

And convey your talk of Lubna and Lubnan

وهاتِ ما حَملت عِطفاكَ مِن خَبرٍ

فإِنَّ لي بُرِبى جَيرونَ جيرانا

And bring what your shoulders have carried of news

For I have neighbors in Jurayroun as neighbors

سقت لياليكَ بالأَحبابِ ساريةٌ

تُعيدُ ظاميءَ ذاك التُّربِ رَيَّانا

Your nights have irrigated with love copiously

Returning the thirst of that soil saturated

ولا تعدَّى الرُّبى من قاسيونَ حياً

يُعيدُ فوقَ الصيَّاصي منهُ غُدرانا

And ruba did not exceed from Ghazioun alive

Who returns above As-Siyasi from it aggression

تلك الرُّبوعُ التي لم تألُ مُذ عُمِرت

في الأرضِ للَّهوِ والأوطارِ أوطانا

Those meadows which have not stopped since they were inhabited

On earth for amusement and camps as homelands

جَوٌّ متَى ما جرت خيلُ اللِّحاظِ بهِ

ألفيتُ فيها لطِرفِ الطَّرفِ مَيدانا

An air wherein the horses of fancy roamed

I found in it for the gaze of the eye a playground

ومسرحٍ أيُّ عَينٍ باشرتُهُ رأت

في ساحَتيهِ مَهاً عيِناً وغِزلانا

And a theater whichever eye experienced it saw

In its field a water spring and gazelles

من كلُّ أهيفَ مثلِ الرُّمحِ مُعتدِلٍ

سِنانُه ناظرٌ ما زال وَسنانا

From every hill like a balanced spear

Its teeth watching have not yet lost a tooth

يُفرِّغُ القلبُ إِلاَّ من جوَىً وأَسىً

أَبقَى سُويداهُ من هذينِ مَلآنا

The heart empties except from affection and sorrow

Which kept its dark complexion from both filled

بكلِّ مُؤنِسةِ منها ومائِسةٍ

عزَّت فلا شيءَ إِلاَّ بعدَها هانا

With every companion of it and converser

Who honored so nothing but after it disgraced

كالسَّمهريِّ إذا هزَّت معاطِفَها

قدَّاً وكالصَّارمِ الَمصقولِ أجفانا

Like the brown snake when it shook its coils

Biting and like the polished sharp sword eyelids

تفترُّ عن شَنبٍ عذبٍ مُقبَّلُهُ

يُريكَ منظومُهَ دُرَّاً ومُرجانا

It shows from a fresh mustache its kiss

Shows you its composition pearls and coral

وَيا عَذوليَ فيهِ دع ملامَك لي

فما أرى فيه لي نُصحاً ولو كانا

And O my reproacher in it stop blaming me

For I don’t see in it for me any advice even if it were two

ما كنتَ تطمعُ في رُشدي ولستَ بِذي

هوىً فكَيفَ بِهذا تَظفرُ الآنا

You were not hoping for my integrity and you are not someone

Of passion so how with this are you seizing now