1. The garden of beauty and elegance rose high,
From the breast of Ismail, perfect of virtues,

2. And in it he built the aqueduct of sweetness,
By which proverbs were coined after trials,

3. So it became, through the wisdom he displayed,
A paradise on earth, East and West,

4. And that was only a desire for the prosperity
Of its resources in Egypt, clearing for the drinker,

5. And that is the grace of God, He gives it to whom He wills
And rewards through it the good and attainment of goals

6. And since this work was completed, I said, recording history,
"By the aqueduct of Ismail good came to the seeker."