استوح شعرك من حنايا الأضلع

واستجل في القسمات حسن المطلع

Draw your poetry from the folds of ribs

Inspire your verse from the hollows of the ribs,

And manifest in features the beauty of horizons

And seek in every feature the beauty of the dawn,

وصغ التحية نضرة رفافة

كالورد وارفعها لهذا المجمع

Craft the greeting a blossoming of eyelids

Fashion a greeting, fresh and fluttering,

Like roses and lift it up for this assembly

Like roses, and raise it to this assembly.

قل للجزائر وهي أم مرضع

مثل اللبوءة أي أم مرضع

Say to Algeria, being the nursing mother

Say to Algeria—for she is a nursing mother,

Like a lioness, O nursing mother

Like the lioness—what a nursing mother she is!

ابناؤك الأشبال فيك تزاوروا

وتزاء روا في الغيل منك بمسمع

Your cubs, the young lions in you visit

Your sons, the cubs, have gathered within you,

And they visit in the night from you with hearing

And roared in the thicket, loud enough for you to hear.