صَفا الماء فَليشرَب هَنيئاً بصحة

وَعافية في جسمه كُلُّ واردِ

Drink the pure water and be blessed with health

And wellbeing in your body, O wayfarer.

فَهَذا سَبيل شيدته أَميرة

بِبحر نَوال ماؤُهُ غَير راكد

For this is a path built by a princess

With a sea of generosity, its water ever-flowing.

وَلِلّه بِالإخلاص في مصر نظّمت

بِإِحسانِها ما يَزدَري بِالقَلائد

With sincerity for God in Egypt she composed

With her charity what adorns more than necklaces.

وَلِلناس سال الآن مِن غَيث برِّها

زلالٌ فَأَحيا نَفس غاد ووافد

For people now flows from her rain of kindness

A fresh drink reviving the sedentary and the traveler.

وَسادَت عَلى أَترابِها في زَمانِها

بِوافر نَفع لِلبرية زائد

She prevailed over her contemporaries in her time

With abundant benefit for the land added.

وَفازَت بِما رامَت وَنالَت مِن الوَرى

بِدَولة إسماعيل كُل المَحامد

She attained what she desired and obtained from the world,

With the state of Ismail, all praise.

وَجيد مَعاليها تَحلّى بِعفة

وَزُهد وَتَوفيق لِخَير المَقاصد

And the excellence of her loftiness was adorned with chastity,

Asceticism, and success towards the best of goals.

وَقَد قالَ مَجدي في بِناها مُؤرِّخاً

سَبيل زَبا عَذب سَنىّ المَوارد

And Majdi said, recording her building,

"The aqueduct of Zaba, sweet water of springs."