1. The awe of memory has reached its extent
With the grandeur of this great occasion

2. Look at these crowds, so numerous
The Nile valley is too narrow to contain them

3. In hearts and faces there is nothing but
A melting heart and thankful gaze

4. The sadness of a devoted mother
Weeping for her dutiful son

5. She weeps for the most cherished of sons
When counting her dear sons

6. She weeps for one so loyal, who exhausted his strength
And spent his life in loyalty to her

7. The passage of time cannot console
Her grieving, anguished heart

8. Alas, it cannot comfort her, though she found
Glory by following in his footsteps

9. A hero who defied fate
And changed its course

10. With wisdom and sheathed swords
He ensured success and seized victory

11. He removed an epoch, rotten through
And renewed a glorious age

12. In events, the further back they recede
The more gains accrue to the studious

13. Days of abundance, an abundance bursting
With gems and pearls of treasure

14. So perceive the great lessons in them
Do not read its pages heedlessly

15. Its pages unfold novelties
Unseen by any eye or reconnoitered

16. It is the way of great deeds that their heir
Builds on the ruins of what came before

17. Its pursuer is guided by it
To paths leading to the like of them

18. O you whose life we celebrate today
Increasing our knowledge of our time

19. You were a treasure for the nation
Leaving treasures in its history

20. That life you gallantly sacrificed
Gaining glory and integrity from it

21. You spent it in your youth - what principles!
So wear everlasting, verdant youth

22. A reward you won though you never
Sought reward for a single day

23. Thus does Egypt reward her liberator
And so does her people give thanks

24. A people roused by its darkness
Oppression overwhelms the free

25. Its demise was inevitable
So it could live, or else bear doom

26. You rose to air its cause
Bearing the weight of its affair

27. And when the earth was vacant
Boarded that hazardous vessel

28. Passing from peril to peril
Defying threats from left and right

29. With the cunning of the well-equipped and under-equipped
Be they timid or emboldened

30. Joining flexibility and firmness in
Character, honesty and guile

31. Guided by intimate knowledge
Of mankind in its thinking

32. Aided by manners that make
Forbidden seem like wine

33. Genius shone from you, piercing
The gloom that hides secrets

34. Sincerity drew you to sweet life
And bitter, mingled as one

35. Striding to your goals indefatigably
Either reaching them or being excused

36. Seeing obstacles, never relenting
Until hardship becomes ease

37. The utmost a disputant can achieve
Is to turn away, gaining nothing

38. From a smooth, firmly rooted boulder
That neither tide nor ebb can shake

39. Honor! Father of the constitution
Egypt never raised the status of her champion higher

40. As ruler at the height of her glory
He held the reins taut and reached the zenith

41. While the people strongly resisted
His friendship, refusing wanton bloodshed

42. Do not fret that his unity
Was fractured, it was best to mend it

43. I have witnessed goodness none can oppose
Until goodness dispels evil altogether

44. Reason, the mighty lion, prevails though
Discord impedes it for ages

45. You could never fear what the craven dreads
When the coward is routed by dread

46. You are the example before our eyes
Did you live nobly or as a full moon?

47. Eyes drown as they gaze at you
And through their tears you seem a bearer of good news

48. How excellent to teach us always
To broaden, not narrow, our breasts

49. Thus were you throughout life: when days
Glowered at you hostile and false

50. Trusting in your victory, never going
Too far, and he who is patient wins

51. Who errs at first then keeps his
Faith has not erred in the end