1. He harnessed knowledge to build a monument
That appears like a flag over the Nile's shore

2. It is an eternal memory, however
Its face is sullen when memory smiles

3. Everything in it, in its miracles
Is that it is the grave of a tyrant broken

4. If only he had harnessed what was in his era
Of powers, not in sanctifying ruins

5. Of arts that dazzled our minds
And sciences before which thought stops still

6. And creative arts that depicted
The faces of excuses for idol worshippers

7. It created such wonders then folded away
And over its secrets time set a seal