1. All people stood watching
How I build the pillars of glory alone

2. And the pyramid builders of the past
Found my words a challenge when contested

3. I am the crown of glorious men in the Orient
Its pearls are the leaders of my apparel

4. What is in the West that dazzled people
In beauty that I do not possess

5. My soil is incense and my river Euphrates
My skies polished like mirrors

6. Wherever you walk, there is a stream by a vine
A blossoming flower, by a slender branch

7. And my men, if judged fairly, would excel
Eyes full of old age yet they're virile

8. If given the opportunity, they would demonstrate
Miracles of intellect in every purpose

9. They are like antelopes whom the passing days
Have rusted their sheaths from prosperity and battle

10. So if fate polishes them it reveals
Blades like death which cannot be stopped

11. If God wills my death
You will not see the East hold its head high after me

12. No archer has shot me yet remained unharmed
Since old, God's care has been my troops

13. How often a state tyrannized me and warred
Then it perished, such is the consequence of aggression

14. I am a free woman who shattered her chains
Despite the necks of enemies and severed their hands

15. I looked to healing though I was dying
When my people had prepared my coffin

16. Tell those who denied the pride of my people
Like they denied the achievements of my children

17. Have you stood at the top of the greatest pyramid
And seen some of my efforts one day?

18. Have you seen those inscriptions that baffled
The skill of the most competitive artisan?

19. Has the color of daylight changed since ancient times?
Its hue untouched by the passage of time

20. Do you understand the secrets I once possessed
Of hidden sciences wrapped in scrolls?

21. That is the art of embalming, it has overcome
Erosion and exhausted the competitive

22. I made covenants since the days of the Pharaohs
So my first covenant was in Egypt

23. My ancient glory is deep-rooted
Who has ancient glory like mine?

24. I am the mother of lawmaking, Rome took
Its principles in jurisprudence all from me

25. And I mapped the stars since first
They shone in the night sky, and perfected my mapping

26. Orion rose above my lands
Before Greece or Arabia's time

27. And long ago my people built navies
To divide the seas carrying my banners

28. Before Nelson's armada was my clandestine navy
My fortune ever ascending, never waning

29. Ask the sea about my ships' afflictions
And ask the land about the sites of my cavalries

30. Do you see me spending my life
In ignorance, not reaching maturity?

31. What people deserves a life of prosperity
With lush shade and verdant color more than me?

32. Do they want justice, to pour me
Pure water, and to muddy my stream?

33. Or truth, to unleash
Their lion, and cage my lion?

34. Half a century I have suffered
What every slave suffers in disgrace

35. God looked upon me and guided my sons
To ascend, and firmly ascend!

36. Truth itself is but forces of religions
More binding than any white satin

37. I promised every gentleman of my men
Glory today, so fulfill my promise

38. Adorn her with spirit, she is a bride
Who accepts a generous dowry

39. Return to me the springs of honor until
The planets court my affection

40. Raise my state upon knowledge and ethics
Since knowledge alone does not avail

41. Advise each other with patience, for if
Patience parts from a people, nothing can mend it

42. Patience alone has granted victory
And sufficed without invention or support

43. With enduring souls and unflinching faces
Witness the fervor of turmoil

44. Patience has erased the mark of knowledge in war
And leaned towards the strongest foe

45. In the West there are spying eyes
Veiled by ambitions toward you

46. Above them is a microscope showing
Secrets and piercing every cover

47. So guard against them with concord
Not ragged clothes, toil, and strain

48. And forgive the lapses of those among you
Who erred erratically, undesigned

49. We are crossing a stand where opinions stumble
And stumbling thoughts lead to demise

50. We rouse chaos on both its sides
So the ignorant return it, and initiate

51. The lost one believes there is no order
And the strong says, my struggle is real

52. Stand in it with resolute determination
And cast both its sides with readiness

53. We are at the dawn of a long night
We have crossed amid channels and passion

54. The darkness of horrors engulfed us
Hopes between ebbs and flows

55. Its light has appeared after hardship
A symbol of my restored reign

56. Clarify the purpose of the path, and strive
For sublime deeds are sought by the glorious