سَما وافر الحزم الأَمير أَخو الذَكا

إلى رُتبة مِنها إِلَيهِ حَنينُ

The prince, abundant in resolve and brother to intelligence, rose high

To a rank for which he had long yearned.

وَنالَ مَع التَوفيق ما هُوَ أَهله

لسبقٍ بِهِ حازَ الفَخار أَمين

With success beside him, he attained what he deserved,

For through his precedence the trustworthy man won glory.

وَأَقبل يَسعى نَحوَهُ خَيرُ مسند

بَناه على طُول الزَمان رَصين

And the noblest seat of office came hastening toward him—

A seat he had built firm over the long course of time.

وَقالَ لَهُ أَنتَ المُدير الَّذي لَهُ

بِتَدبيره صَعب الأُمور يَلين

And it said to him: “You are the administrator through whose

Governance the hardest affairs become tractable.

وَأَنتَ الَّذي تَشفي بِعَدل وَحكمة

عَليلاً رَماه بِالعضال مهين

And you are the one who, with justice and wisdom, cures

An invalid struck by a degrading, incurable malady.

وَتُنقذه مِن ظالمٍ داءُ ظُلمِه

لَهُ دائِماً بَينَ الضُلوع دَفين

And you save him from an oppressor whose disease—his rancor—

Lies always buried between his ribs.

وَتدفع عَن أَهل البِلاد مَلمةً

نَجا بك مِنها في العِلاج طَعين

And you ward off calamity from the people of the land;

Through your treatment, whoever it has stricken escapes.”

لذلك مَدحي مِنهُ في كُل محفل

نَثرت عَلَيك الدرّ وَهوَ ثَمين

Therefore, from my praise of him in every gathering,

I scattered precious pearls upon you.

وَقُلت بِأَوقات التَهاني مؤرخاً

فَريد الوَرى باشا بمصر مَكين

And in verses of congratulation I spoke, composing a chronogram:

‘Peerless among mankind—a pasha firmly established in Egypt.’