وَيَا سَنَةً لَقِينَاها

بِمِلْء صُدُورِنا بِشْرَا

Oh year we met

With our hearts filled with joy

أَزِيلِي آيَةَ الْبُؤْسَى

وَهَاتِي آيَةَ البُشْرَى

Remove the mark of misery

And bring the mark of glad tidings

إِلَيْكِ بِمَا أَلَمَّ بِنَا

وَأَجْرَى الأَدْمُعَ الحُمْرَا

To you with what has afflicted us

And the red tears that flowed

لِتصْفُوِ بَعْدَ كدْرَتِهَا

دُمُوعُ المُقْلَةِ الشَّكْرَى

That after its turbidity they become pure

The tears of grateful submission

كصَفْوِ النَّفْسِ بَعْدَ الخطْبِ

أَعْقَبَ حُزْنُهَا الذِّكْرى

Like the purity of soul after adversity

Followed by its sorrowful memories

أُعِيدي السُّبْلَ سَاقِيَةً

تفِيضُ الخَيْرَ وَالبِرَّا

Restore the paths pouring

Goodness and righteousness

نَحِن حَنِينَ وَالِدَةٍ

إِذَا مَا أَرْضَعَتْ قَطْرَا

We are yearning like a mother

When she suckles a drop

وَتَلْبَثُ كلُّ بَاسِقَةٍ

بِفيْيءِ ظِلهَا قَصْرَا

And every tall tree lasts

In the shade of its palace

عَلَى هَذَا الرجَاءِ حَلاَ

لَنَا توْدِيعُ مَا مَرَّا

On this hope passed

Our farewell to what has passed

وَسَلَّمْنا عَلَى الآتِي

بِمَا يَسْتَأْسِرُ الحُرَّا

And we bid peace to what is coming

That captures the freeman

أَقَمْنَا مِهْرَجَانَ دُجىً

يُحَالِفُ ذِكْرُهُ الدَّهْرَا

We held a festival of darkness

Whose memory befriends eternity

لِنَلْقَى عَامَنَا سَمْحاً

طَلِيقَ الْبِشْرِ مُفْتَرَّا

To meet our year with tolerance

Easy, gleeful tidings

جَلَوْنَا لَيْلَة حُسْنَا

بِنُورِ الزِّينَةِ الكُبْرَى

We adorned a beautiful night

With the light of grand decoration

وَردْنَا صَفْوَهُ صَفْواً

وَزَدْنا زهْرَهُ زَهْرَا

We returned its clarity as clarity

And added to its flowers more flowers

وَأَرْقَصْنَا الغصُونَ لَهُ

وَأَنْشدْنَا لَهُ الشِّعْرَا

And we made the branches dance for it

And we sang poems to it

لَعَلَّ مَسَرَّةً مِنْهُ

تُعِيضُ مِنَ الَّذِي ضَرَّا

That maybe some joy from it

Would compensate what misery has done

إِذا مَا سَاءَتِ الأُولَى

عَسَى أَنْ تُحْسنَ الأُخْرَى

If the former were miserable

Perhaps the latter would be good