1. For me, when your youth dawned and shone bright
I had a hope I asked God to make right

2. Dawn on us with good fortune, do not be
Like your ill-starred brother, bleak of plight

3. He who healed souls became their plague
Free them of their ills, be fortunate

4. I rejoiced when I glimpsed the light of his brow
And hoped for good when it shone bright

5. I stirred him with a poem, had it been
Recited to deaf rock, it would weep right

6. But he turned away, intent on his ill-luck
And persisted in misfortune and sunk tight

7. Had I known what he hid for us
I'd have prayed fervently for him wiped outright

8. He did the non-Arabs a noted favor
And restored the Turks their former might

9. Affairs changed for him because of Persia
Till I saw the Shah fear his troops in flight

10. And he handed over from Abdul Hamid to his people
So desires returned and he failed outright

11. He cares not, keeping watch o'er his troops
As elephants care not for ants in sight

12. And he cast his crime upon Kinana's land
With calamities till it was weighted tight

13. His sickles reaped our hopes' harvest
If spared, it would have flourished upright

14. The press was bound forcibly by him
And desire roamed freely unleashed outright

15. And he came to bargain the Canal, deceitful
If done, it would have split us outright

16. The calamity - that Egypt be sold and bought
And all in it, yet cannot speak upright

17. The papers once consoled us for our pains
When adversities came heavily outright

18. If I called and the tears refused to flow
They wept for us, sad till they burst outright

19. In days of woes, they were arrows for us
To shoot, and racers on day of fight

20. They were a valve for souls when laden
With cares, and nearly choked outright

21. How they eased many a freeman's breast
If not for the valve, they would tear outright

22. Why do I mourn the press, despairing so
What has befallen it, besieging outright?

23. They cut its margins, thinking they
Escaped its thunderbolts, but were struck outright

24. And they brought their cunning one to plot against it
To weaken its resolve, but it was too bright

25. Hello country's growth, welcome - you
Renewed the pact which had come undone outright

26. Despair not to regain your glory
For many a fallen soul rose in flight

27. Hopes from their heavens cast for him
The thread of hope to heights he climbed outright

28. So take on every mighty hardship for glory
I've seen glory is hard to gain upright

29. Who wished to reach the sun, wove its threads
A cause to his hopes, and climbed outright

30. Shame on Nile's son, the world's pace-maker
However much his fate revolved outright

31. Or whenever they said, their unity fell apart
Discord played with our unity, so they split outright

32. So flow copiously, and contain your Nile
For how often did it overflow and burst outright?

33. They blamed the times and its turns against us
Primping as they robbed us outright

34. They shook its West, so their might shook
Woe to you if you don't shake the East outright

35. So learn, for knowledge is key to sublime
Leaving no gate to fortune shut outright

36. Then derive from it your every power
For the strong are feared in every land outright

37. And build a wall of vigil 'round your basin
And mark with caution a trench outright

38. Weigh words and make them straight, for they
Hid in every letter for you a slippery slide outright

39. And walk cautiously, for your path
Is rugged, rimmed by death hovering outright

40. They set traps for you in it and lay in wait
In every steep place an ambush outright

41. Death in its swooping and talons
And death - all death - if you do not take flight

42. So seize life's opportunities, many
And hasten them with resolves and ascents outright

43. Or create them, able, for life's chances
Are a creation, meant to be created outright

44. And take the shade of the throne, and aim
For a king of his nation, so kind and gentle outright

45. The crown of kingship still sits on his brow
Under the crescent, adorning that head outright