1. O state, you call for treacherous defense
While you are the most treacherous of them all

2. Have you forgotten the defeat at Crimea
When the fleet stoned you with pitiless stoning

3. While it was anchored, with its sailors
Who did not await an attack upon it

4. And have you forgotten the defeat by the Indians
And the Armenians taking you captive in shackles

5. I would have cried out about this
Had I remained free and the interim continued

6. And the white and the red never met
To be a barrier against any transgressor

7. My path used to be towards Syria
And other cities of the Imam

8. O state of the Tsar, I blame you
That today, instead, I fear you

9. If your ambition for Japan
Distracts you from your alleged right to the Balkans

10. And the British rise there
With arrogance and confusion

11. They came and shouted selfishly
Egypt or staying in Macedonia!

12. And they possessed Egypt like possessing Cyprus
And completed what they lacked of their affairs