1. My advice to you, O people of Egypt
So take the advice of one who counsels you well

2. And do not leap with the leap of fools and find
Yourselves riding bareback on swords' sharp edges

3. For if any trace of Pharaoh still remains in you
Moses' staff is still held in noble hands

4. And the Commander of the Faithful has cast at you
A serpent that swallows the land's serpents whole