1. O Zaghlool, your loss is enough of a consolation
Death's law upon the Prophet and his family

2. Amidst calamities it cared for naught
Except that it fell short of your patience and beauty

3. It took the sadness from you in Sa'eed
A country whose elder is the bearer of its burdens

4. It has stunned him by its loss as it stunned you
And he cried what you cried in his agony

5. Just as he was your treasure and refuge
He was among his treasure and hopes

6. If only he who freed you was not destined
To be handed to death during his detention

7. It veiled the spring you hoped for
And folded the journey to glory from its crescent

8. It glimpsed health and passed it by
And skipped his youth not caring for it

9. Man only dies at his appointed time
Not in his prime or at his peak

10. You know not, o dove, whether the eagle carried off
The lion or its cubs

11. O Sa'eed, console and be gentle with an
Elderly kinsman suffering the pangs of bereavement

12. His share of the blows of fate did not suffice
Until you added to his worries and preoccupations

13. So time was rough and I improvised these verses
From its calamities and sudden composition

14. Get up and witness, if you can stand,
The regret of poetry and the dissolution of its imagination

15. You were for me in gatherings a reciter
Ibn Al-Hussein cannot match the likes of you

16. Keen in authentic narration from the essence of eloquent speech
And more knowledgeable regarding its subtleties than its pearls

17. There was no narrowness in his excessiveness
Nor was he incapable in his moderation

18. He would not transgress, fearing transgression
And would leave be who did not support him

19. Go in the custody of youth, pure
As long as you folded its train

20. Blame the times and life, for you are not
Of its people, nor of its sphere

21. May God protect you from the corruption of a time
That has stained the garments of its men

22. They will say he did not eulogize him for merit
Rather, he eulogized him out of loyalty for his uncle

23. Who was it that brought Kulayb's head
Or cured Egypt of the blindness of its occupation?

24. There is nothing between me and your uncle
Except that I lived in reverence of him

25. I wish for Egypt that good flows
For it from his right and left

26. I do not wish it like the men for the sake of prey
From their unlawful or legitimate elections

27. How can I wish for Abu Sa'eed anything
When disbelief and misguidance were decreed for him?

28. He is worthy to have my people's affairs returned to them
In the reality of their independence

29. And I am the man who saw no truth but that
I was of his party and his worker

30. Many a free man have I praised
The sculptors are incapable of matching his statue