لَكَ السَعدُ وَافى بِالعُلى في مَواكبِهْ

وَمِنكَ دَنا بَدرُ الهَنا في كَواكبِهْ

Good fortune attends you with honor in its processions,

And from you the full moon of joy rises in its orbit.

وَفُزتَ بِتَشريفٍ عَزيزٍ لِمَنزلٍ

أَضاءَت لآلي جيدِه بِمواهبه

You have won a precious honor for a position,

That made eminent by Divine aid his noble forehead.

سَعى في رَبيعٍ في مَساء غُروبه

لِحادي وَعشرين بِتَحقيق حاسبه

It strove in a springtime whose sunset was

The twenty-first, to fulfill its account.

فَطابَت لَكَ الأَوقاتُ في ظل دَولة

لِكُل امرئ فيها صَفاءُ مَشاربه

So times were pleasant for you in the shadow of a state,

Wherein each person has the serenity of his drinking-place.

وَكَيفَ وَقَد أَولاكَ مِنهُ رِياسةً

بِها اِزدان في مَصر أَجلُّ مَناصبه

And how should it not be so, when he has appointed you to leadership,

By which the noblest of positions are adorned in Egypt?

فَقُمت مَع النوّاب في كُل محفلٍ

بسنة عَدلٍ كَسرويٍّ وَواجبه

So you stood with the deputies in every assembly,

With a sunna of justice like a lofty cypress.

وَقُوبلت بِالتَمييز مِنهُ تَأسِّياً

بِأَحمَد في المَولى سَميّك صاحبه

And you were met by him with favor,

As Ahmad to his lordly namesake.

وَذَلِكَ تَوفيقٌ مِن اللَه خَصّه

بِهِ وَحده فينا لِتَأييد جانبه

And that is a divine guidance which He singled out

For it and for succoring His side.

فَبُشراه مخدوماً وَبُشراك خادِماً

يَجلُّ عَن الإِحصاء بَعض مَناقبه

Give glad tidings to the prince and yourself as his servant,

Whose virtues are too numerous to be counted.

وَبُشرى لِمجدي حَيث قال مُؤرّخاً

لَقَد زارَ إسماعيل منزل راتبه

And glad tidings to my Majdi wherever the historian says,

"Ismail visited the abode of his salary."