1. The West's rule on earth has long endured
Submission and acquiescence long in the East

2. The West is active, chasing its needs
Striving to attain them while the East is lazy

3. The West takes while the East is ransacked
The West awake while the East slumbers

4. If the West declines the burdened East will rise
For time, earth and customs are its allies

5. And from exhaustion it may erupt
As volcanoes erupt from compression

6. When will claws that restrict be clipped
So that no man tyrannizes another man?

7. Can accord be hoped for after creeds,
Interests, temperaments and faiths have clashed?

8. Not angels make peace but the devil ignites war
Whenever he pleases, whatever the cause

9. Blood freely shed for truth is a price
For it alone brings glory and is precious

10. Every nation relies on its promises
Yet in the struggle of time all are deserted

11. Peaceful souls seeking life have perished
Countries desired by them are laid waste

12. If a man lacks absolute power
Every right he has will be invalidated

13. Do not oppress an Arab in his homeland
For he is, like you, a human being

14. Every war-stricken man has suffered disasters
But the Arab today has no solace

15. Seventy million, descendants of Arabs
Angry with you in the East, O Balfour

16. In every perplexity, return to conscience
For it alone is the balance of truth

17. O Fawzi's grave, greetings and ardour
Sent to you by one yearning in Baghdad

18. Afterwards, poetry whose fragrance was known
As if from the earth's vegetation a balsam

19. A nightingale trilled high up on a lofty tree
As if its leaves were a divan of verse

20. In a garden blooming like the eternal paradise
As if its trees were maidens and boys