Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

Boy of the Cedars

 

Grant me safety, O boy of the cedars,

So that I may find shelter beneath your shade.

I am feverish...

Will you heal me and have mercy on me? 

Would you give me a sip of the incense water

flowing in the heart of your mountain?

Have mercy, breathe...

Breathe a little so that I may be revived...

O beginning and end of the universe.

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