1. I made its necklaces and its statues
The eyes of rhymes and their examples

2. And I sent it into the sky of imagination
Dragging its train upon the stars

3. And I chirp this plain
Its branches grew and its chains jingled

4. You see Egypt like the Kaaba of poetry
And every suspended piece said it

5. And you glimpse between the houses of poetry
The ornaments of the bride and her anklets

6. Al-Nasib turned to his love for her
And the eulogies turned to her majesty

7. Al-Abkariyy sang of her past glory
And sang the likes of crying her state

8. And he recounts events in his poetry
Training cubs on valor its lads

9. And they have not yet seen the water of swords
So no harm if they saw its kin

10. And a day with shaded forenoon from Bashenas
Brought over Egypt its hopes

11. Its shade narrated of the youth of time
The rustling of margins and their bending

12. Egypt walked in it, retracing eras
And the mention of youth overwhelms its mindlessness

13. And it displays in the grand festival
Its ornaments the diadems and its finery

14. And Ramses of perfect majesty came
Ancient of processions pretentiously walking

15. And he did not rule except by the council of affairs
Nor was arrogant nor haughtily ruled

16. So he greeted in most eloquent
The faces of the countries and their messengers

17. And he plunged into the darkness of centuries
Ripping for art its concealments

18. So who can reach El Karnak the Luxorian
And inform Thebes its ruins

19. And make hear then in the Valley of the Kings
The kings of the abode and their pyramids

20. And all immortalized in the mounds
There we did not enumerate their conditions

21. Upon them is a brocade of revelation
Time insisted but did not wear it away

22. They almost, even if not attached
To a spirit that moves their joints

23. Art is only the beautiful shrine
When it mingles with the soul it suggests to it

24. It is only the beauty of minds
When they dedicate to it their totality

25. God sent the age of arts
And the earth brought forth its examples

26. Come let us see how he fashioned Al-Safa
A girl gathering up her garb

27. She approached Abu Al-Haul walking the pace of the willowy
To a seat raging with her thrashing

28. And he had traversed in the intoxications of destinies
The meters of nights and their lengths

29. And cast upon the sands his corridors
And anchored upon the ground their burdens

30. He imagines for his collapse in the sands
The downfall of eras and their sweepers

31. She said, move, so the inert understood
As if the inert comprehended her saying

32. Did she pour into his wrinkles
The rays of life and its runnels?

33. Do you remember when she raged like a lioness
And whipped from the darkness her cubs?

34. And she threw them into the thick of perils
And they waded through perils and terrors

35. And they revolted so the madness of winds raged
And the earth quaked its quaking

36. And their chief felt them in the dark
The discourse of nations and their preoccupations

37. And who has seen a jungle that struggled
And repelled from captivity its dens

38. And I fear what was the despair of nations
When right arms its vulnerable

39. My heart, lift the veil from a renaissance
Your ancestors led its heroes

40. And the son of many a man the countries did not birth
He nurtured it and roused its progeny

41. And pearls are not owned by the seas
But owned by those who attained them

42. Neither Ali nor his generation
If Egypt paraded its generations

43. Built a state from the daughters of spears
The Nile never witnessed its like

44. If its fleet adorned the sea
The land wore its coat of mail

45. As for your father, the world of civilization, if fate were friendly to its prosperity
Africa chose its crown

46. And embedded in the crown its Somalia
Your steeds, O son of al-Muizz, are succor

47. And excel in good their grants
If they walked the land they made it forget

48. The steeds of the sky and their grants
So you did not leave the palace except having healed

49. The wounds of minds and their impairments
God has surely placed in your arms

50. The right of ancestors and their left
You draft and build citadels of knowledge

51. And you open for the East its locks