1. Today your talk returned me, O Egypt, visions
And memories roamed around me

2. And the heart fluttered with your name, and
Smiles of intoxication crept upon thoughts

3. Whoever came to the rock of existence
So it overflowed and what flowed flowed

4. A fresh, sweet-watered valley overflowing
Green oases submerged

5. It makes glory from turbans of flowers
Whenever a red fez turns it back

6. Whenever the blackened Egypt wears it
Its glory and majesty increase

7. Whenever the star adorns it with knowledge
Springs flow to us from it

8. It is the one who molded us at the sanctuary of the Nile
And its arms, prayer and thanks

9. The dawn of the Nile the day it spread in the land
Its morning light and made for people a dawn

10. He said "Be" so it stirred casting
Its red wine on the banks to flow

11. So it pours life into the valley
And flows in the star a course

12. Indeed, Egypt and Sudan the brother
Were for the Nile’s heart a chest

13. Preserving its ancient glory and establishing from it
Renown and elevation from it a mention

14. So ask the Nile about the bounties we widened
Preserving them and appreciating their worth

15. We did not turn away from them but time
Its circumstances treated us, and it was time

16. And they probed thought in the caves of the pyramids
And extracted from it in our time an extraction

17. And they discerned the inscriptions and elucidated
The relics and interpreted the stones - a thing

18. And asked them, for in them are remnants
Of news that widens relations - a spreading

19. The debaters have spun the miracle of the revelation
As the gentle one spun a fragrance

20. Are we not two thousand passions united
By the common land of thought in great bonds

21. Were they not the origins that settled
Wherever the migrant had settled?

22. Constants there are attributed similarities
And grow many relations from the relations

23. Egypt has cast, cultured, and prepared
From it a sun, and made from it a moon emerge

24. It prepared its thought so it shone, it bought
Then donned, racing and outperforming prancing

25. So time it outwitted, and the arrow of worry
It spent speeding, and competed with the wind's course

26. The nature of Egypt - endeavor and liveliness -
If the desert confounded it with a sly attack

27. How, our people, can we distance
Thoughts that pulled together and supported each other?

28. How can you say the Nile has banks
And flows on other shores?

29. Whenever they denied Egypt's culture
I was from its making alarmed and vigilant

30. I came in its limit a watcher, so God may revive
The repository of culture - Egypt

31. May God refresh its face, it what increases
Except in distance from me and difficulty

32. A hope died in myself I dug for it
From God's care a grave

33.
Its soul perished, and it overflowed a radiance

34. Before the end of childhood, a life
I used to live on a dew from it that dripped

35. Coolness on my hand and fragrance
In outstretched shadows I poured poetry

36. Upon it from bliss a stream
Then oh woe took it, the world narrowed

37. With it, its endurance and patience exhausted
After it revived life before my eyes it left

38. Struggling and left behind captives
If we faced from it in distance a vision

39. We faced from it green banks
O son of Egypt, and we have for you what we

40. Hope Egypt reaches from good
Tell it in honesty of truth - and it is right

41. That honesty be preferred
And trust the bonds of literary etiquette

42. And don't care about other things
And stop where the paths of thought

43. Are known to flow a course
Everything in existence other than knowledge