1. نطقت حشاشة محسن تتبرم

    حتى اذا سكتت ونى نطق الدم

    Muhsin's last spark of life spoke in discontent,

    until, when it fell silent from weakness, his blood spoke.

  2. للّه تلك النفس كيف تمزقت

    برصاصة وثابة لا ترحم

    God! How that soul was torn apart

    by a darting bullet that shows no mercy.

  3. ضحى الرئيس بنفسه لبلاده

    لما رأى ان السياسة تغشم

    The leader sacrificed his life for his country

    when he saw that politics was oppressive.

  4. ضحى باغلى ما لديه لاجلها

    والليل مسدول الذوائب اسحم

    He sacrificed his dearest possession for her sake,

    while night was pitch-black, its tresses hanging loose.

  5. بعد الرجاء عراه يأس مثلما

    عقب النهار يجيء ليل مظلم

    After hope, despair overtook him, just as

    after day comes a dark night.

  6. فمشت به نحو الحتوف جريئة

    رجل اذا ما صممت لا تحجم

    So boldly it bore him toward death—

    a foot that, once resolved, does not draw back.

  7. هذا لعمري في البطولة فوق ما

    في الحرب يفعله الكمي المعلم

    This, by my life, surpasses in heroism what

    the distinguished armored warrior does in battle.

  8. للجرح فوق القلب منه فتحة

    تحكي فماً في صدره يتكلم

    The wound above his heart has an opening

    resembling a mouth speaking within his breast.

  9. ابلغ بما ادلى به من حجة

    لما تكلم دامياً ذاك الفم

    How eloquent the argument it put forward

    when that mouth spoke, bleeding!

  10. جود الرجال بمالهم عظم لهم

    والجود بالنفس العزيزة اعظم

    Men's generosity with their wealth brings them greatness,

    and giving one's precious life is greater.

  11. غير الذي فعل الرئيس بنفسه

    ماذا عسى ان يفعل المتبرم

    Apart from what the leader did to himself,

    what could a discontented man possibly do?

  12. في كل بيت للرئيس مناحة

    في الرافدين وكل يوم مأتم

    In every home there is mourning for the leader

    in the land of the Two Rivers, and every day a gathering of mourners.

  13. حملوه يبغون القبور وخلفه

    سيل من البشر المشيع مفعم

    They carried him, bound for the graves, and behind him

    was a brimming torrent of people escorting the dead.

  14. فمضى يعج وراء موكب نعشه

    جيش من المتفجعين عرمرم

    And on it went, crying out behind his bier's procession—

    a vast army of the grief-stricken.

  15. لم تشهد العصر القديمة موكبا

    ضخماً كموكب نعشه يتقدم

    Never did the ancient ages witness a procession

    so vast as the advancing procession of his bier.

  16. يا مطلقاً في صدره لرصاصه

    سرفي طريق الموت فهو الاسلم

    O you who fired your bullets into your breast,

    go down the road of death, for it is the safest.

  17. تاللَه انك بانتحارك يائسا

    عن كل ابناء العراق تترجم

    By God, indeed, through your suicide in despair,

    you speak for all the sons of Iraq.

  18. ليل وزوبعة وبحر ثائر

    انا لا أرى ان السفينة تسلم

    Night, a whirlwind, and a raging sea—

    I do not think the ship will survive.

  19. انا ان سكت عن الذي قد غمني

    فدمي الذي اهرقته يتكلم

    As for me, if I keep silent about what has grieved me,

    then my blood, which I have shed, will speak.

  20. لا ينكر الاعقاب صدقي بعدما

    في صفحة التاريخ سجله الدم

    Posterity will not deny my sincerity after

    blood has inscribed it on history's page.

  21. ولقد تحملت المصائب كلها

    من اجل اوطاني التي هي تظلم

    And I have indeed borne all calamities

    for the sake of my native lands, which are oppressed—

  22. تلك التي فيها مآثر اسرتي

    وربوعهم وقبورهم والاعظم

    those that hold my family's noble deeds,

    and their dwellings, their graves, and their bones.