1. How long will I stand beside the fleet,
Disembark or be content with retreat?

2. A fighter who fears battle and avoids
The tanks - what fate on day of defeat?

3. Why hesitate when armies are many
And bullets showered, not just a few?

4. Why gloat over old men and children
When you should refrain from this view?

5. Advance to the field where they waited so long
And towards them you harbored this greed

6. Attack with the eunuchs of the Najashi, if
Any remnants by Aminueel.

7. They're the best soldiers in physique and their
Castration made their horses fleet.

8. And you've castrated us today - all but
The dead among us, incomplete.

9. Why do soldiers cling to their ship
And clutch it tight like brides to their seat?

10. Ask the Pope in Rome if he sees
Divorce law in the Gospel's treat.

11. Of what use are the fleet's cannons when
They fire wrongly, without discreet?

12. Shoot them at the stars, let seconds
Measure the miles traversed in fleet.

13. Disaster, if not met by disaster
Where can I find it on stage in theater's seat?

14. Not all who bear arms frighten
Enemies, so beware of deceit.

15. No pride in machinery if
It's cast by hands failed and defeat.

16. With it he unwillingly meets his death
At enemy's hand, anguish complete.

17. No use restraining his weapon, if
He finds no honor made concrete.

18. It lured them, few we were in
The sea - how we clung to deceit!

19. Ready the ships to carry the booty
That found favor with Islam so replete.

20. As if they came to our rescue with them -
Perhaps even the enemy's heart holds treat.

21. With God's praise, we need no weapons,
No rations to eat.

22. The lions terrify even unarmed -
They care not for your blade incomplete.

23. The coward's hand on the sword like its sheath,
The sword in his hands clenched defeat.

24. No clamor of battle came from his sword
Save hardship and hindrance concrete.

25. Men have only courage as asset,
No glory of past can repeat.

26. Especially Muslim creed's devotees
Who meet death chanting praise as they fleet.

27. They see the martyr's death as his life,
Affirming what they read in Scripture's sheet.

28. So to you the moral in brief,
To you what details effete.

29. First of our works child's play
With a ship that mocked the fleet.

30. Derna that flew the flags of deceit
Unharmed by the wreck after entry complete.

31. It sailed by the enemy's ships,
Like a bride trailing her sheet.

32. And strangely, the enemy fleet
Blocked the sea to stop its retreat.

33. It cast its cargo and they cast it back
Amid cheers for reaching its destined seat.

34. To them it seemed an honor, this wreck,
Or was like crowning made concrete.

35. How many more miracles like it
Nearly made them pack up and fleet!

36. They stayed at the shore, hunkered
Under the fleet's shadow complete.

37. Arabs gathered around their fence
Where death was the hope made replete.

38. Conquering them grew hard, so they
Conspired against Istanbul's seat.

39. The awful war turned its aim
To Islam's shrine with deceit.

40. Four countries allied to
Aid the cross - their aid made concrete.

41. The Balkans marshaled forces
To regain the Gospel's defeat.

42. And Christian countries appealed, those
Who hated the Muslim life complete.

43. With "civilization" as their roar,
They quenched their spite murdering foes fleet.

44. They congratulated taking Adrianople
And preachers sang with voices replete.

45. The vile war paused for council
In London - for lies made concrete.

46. All saw their right to take it
While God from tyrants is discrete.