1. ذهب الغرور بهم وساء المطمع

    وقضى عليهم سيفهم والمدفع

    Pride carried them away, and evil was their ambition.

    And their own sword and the cannon destroyed them.

  2. ماضرهم قبل اللقا لو أنصفوا

    أو أمعنوا في الترك حين تجمعوا

    What harm would it have done them, before the encounter, had they been fair,

    or had looked closely at the Turks when they assembled?

  3. لو فكر المغرور قبل وقوعه

    ما بات يجني عكس ما يتوقع

    Had the deluded man reflected before his fall,

    he would not be reaping the opposite of what he expects.

  4. يا أمة اليونان دونكم الوغى

    لا راحم فيها ولا متشفع

    O nation of Greece, the fray lies before you:

    no one there shows mercy, and no one intercedes.

  5. أولى الشعوب بذله وعنائه

    شعب بغير دياره يتربع

    Among nations, the most deserving of its humiliation and suffering

    is a nation ensconced in lands not its own.

  6. ذوقوا الحتوف فأنتم أهل لها

    أو فاتركوا دار الفوارس وارجعوا

    Taste death, for you deserve it,

    or leave the land of horsemen and return.

  7. آلي كمال أن يطهر أرضه

    ويزود عنها كل عاد يطمع

    Kemal swore to cleanse his land

    and drive from it every aggressor who covets it.

  8. نادى فلبته الجيوش وإنها

    لتزعزع الدنيا ولا تتزعزع

    He called, and the armies answered him; indeed, they

    surely shake the world, yet are themselves unshaken.

  9. من كل أروع في الحروب مدرب

    لا يشتكي نصبا ولا يتضعضع

    Made up of gallant men, well trained in warfare,

    each complaining of no fatigue and never faltering.

  10. يرمي به في الحرب عزم باتع

    ويسوقه للنصر قلب أصمع

    A mighty resolve hurls him into battle,

    and a resolute heart drives him to victory.

  11. يطأون صدر الأرض فهو مزلزل

    ويرون صرف الدهر فهو مروع

    They tread the earth's breast, and it is shaken;

    they behold the turns of fate, and fate is terror-stricken.

  12. جن إذا لا قوك إلا أنه

    في الحرب جن الأرض منهم تفزع

    Jinn when they meet you—yet

    in battle, even the earth's jinn recoil in fear from them.

  13. دوت مدافعهم فجيش يخضع

    من غير ما حرب وآخر يصرع

    Their cannons thundered; one army submits

    without any battle, and another is struck down.

  14. هبوا بأنقرة كما هب الردى

    فالخصم يهرب والمنية تتبع

    They rose at Ankara as death itself rose;

    so the foe flees, and death pursues.

  15. ذوقوا الحروب فكل يوم صعقة

    ودعوا الهروب فكل أرض مصرع

    Taste war, for every day is a thunderbolt;

    and abandon flight, for every land is a place of death.

  16. ما زال يرميهم كمال بجيشه

    حتى غدوا والساح منهم بلقع

    Kemal kept assailing them with his army,

    until they were gone and the field lay empty of them.

  17. خلوا البلاد لذي البلاد وأقلعوا

    فالحرب نار والمطامع زعزع

    Leave the land to its owner, and depart:

    for war is fire, and ambitions are a violent wind.

  18. نصحوا فلم يرضوه حتى روعوا

    إن العنيد لحتفه متشيع

    They were advised, but would not accept it until they were terrified.

    Indeed, the obstinate man is a partisan of his own doom.