1. Arise, outrun time and forestall its promise
The earth has narrowed for you, so split open its sheath

2. And fill its interior and its plateau with spears
And unlock the sources of the Nile and reclaim them

3. Its cataracts, its sweetness, and its course
And divert its islands and its flood back to us

4. Those are the faces we have long missed
Our kin have whitened their darkened faces for us

5. Extracted from the valley of kings, it rose high
And the sun cast its first rays upon it

6. Its rule regained its magnificence
It whitened the meadows and restored its freshness

7. It wore out the lions of time and broke its edge
And created eras anew and renewed them

8. It traveled forty centuries counting them
Until it reached the house and found next to it

9. England, its army, and its lords
Weakened India protecting its India

10. Standing over Sudan building its dam
And planted at the Canal its crops

11. So it said while the deepest regrets consumed it
Would that the grave's wall had not crumbled

12. Would that my eyes had not left its sleep
Arise, my lady, what has passed is past

13. Egypt, my girl, did not respect its ancestors
It knocked behind my resting place, driving its poles

14. And confused its gazelles and its lions
And the cupbearer spilled the wine, wasting it

15. It dragged over my glory its curtain
Would that the glory of death had blocked it

16. So I said: O you, its glory and its wound
Had you not been the son of the sun you would have been its monkey

17. Your rule, the stars desired its rule
You showed us the world through it, and we loved it

18. Its sultanate, its honor, and its prosperity
And how can the pious be granted its eternity?

19. Your deeds, counting surpasses their count
Time collapsed, and you did not support it

20. Your doors, which we frequented, frequented them
Carter turned away the delegations from them

21. Were it not for efforts we do not want to deny
And sanctity, from your proximity we drew it

22. I said to you: Strike his hand and drive him
And send him some flies to vex him

23. Egypt, the girl, has come of age
And the pure blood has proven her maturity

24. She played on the ropes alone
She tried its loosening and its pulling

25. So she sent her troops and her children
In the West, they closed to him its closure

26. And she sent to Parliament her soldiers
And she mobilized for the festival her masses

27. She marched to it her elderliness and her refusal
And showed her dimples and her cheeks

28. And scattered roses over the road
And welcomed its heart and its delegation

29. Its shelters, its caves, and its pasture
And the son who straightened its tilting pillar

30. And united after separation its knot
And made Libya's desert its boundary

31. And spread over Hijaz its hands
And made the rebel in it its slave

32. Until it reached the house it had prepared
For Egypt to build in its lands its glory

33. So it established the council and tied its bond
And empowered the blessed generation with its era

34. Its authority it restored to our children
O Lord, strengthen its hand and embolden it

35. And pave for it the paths, do not obstruct them
And for each step measure what comes after it

36. And turn it away from trivial matters
And divert it to the essence of matters

37. And do not overburden the victims with their efforts
And curb the soul's whims and break its hatred

38. And unite upon the merciful mother her children
And fill her breast with the milk of brilliance

39. And do not let an autocrat revive to rule her
Or stamp with its feet and drive away its individuals