1. Eternal Providence has kept you safe,

    and everlasting care has shielded you,

  2. and for country, people, and throne there survived

    the minister of order and liberty.

  3. An adventurer's murderous purpose—you intercepted it

    while it still lay in his breast, a purpose known to your Lord.

  4. And the instrument meant to carry it out would not obey him:

    his hand, though hidden within his cloak.

  5. His instigator wished the one sacrificed should be

    you; instead, he became both ransom and victim.

  6. Whoever congratulates you upon your deliverance

    congratulates faithful Egypt upon her faithful son's deliverance.

  7. The provinces declared their love for you—

    Minufiyya and Qalyubiyya.

  8. The delegations came, and opened wide for the

    visitors were gardens of eternity.

  9. Their lofty trees bent tenderly over you,

    and their waters flowed toward you in greeting.

  10. Rise today among the notables as an orator

    at these Khayriyya Barrages.

  11. Remember my favors to you, and remind

    his people of the illustrious deeds of Muhammad Ali's house.

  12. Speak of the blessing of the free king,

    Fuad, and of his justice among his subjects;

  13. and of the new order, drawing near to sound consulta—

    —tion and the true legitimacy of lawful rule.

  14. Proclaim the easing of the great cri—

    —sis and the benefits of the cotton policy.

  15. Lay bare the creed of those who claimed that

    they were the majority—the overwhelming host.

  16. Time exacted vengeance on them for your rival,

    and it was vengeance for the Egyptian cause.

  17. Your hand undertook their reckoning on his behalf—

    your generous, pure, powerful hand.

  18. They forgot their own era, and Wafdist intrigues overstepped

    it to reach you.

  19. You went forward while your companions bound you together in

    wholesome, firm fraternal ties.

  20. If the spiteful deem your achievement reaction—

    —ary, then welcome such reaction!

  21. They relinquished power helpless, yet have never

    ceased to be morbidly possessed by that ambition:

  22. a craving wandering through their souls, neither

    fulfilled nor forgotten.

  23. They prattled endlessly about His Majesty the King

    and violated this sanctity.

  24. On a whim they fashioned it into pages neither

    published nor folded away.

  25. You have remedied every matter; do you therefore hope

    to remedy this mentality?

  26. And are those people fit for a reconciliation

    worthy of national politics?

  27. Or do they despair, now that you have rendered

    them incapable of trafficking in patriotism?

  28. The obstinacy of an obdurate man is less dreadful

    than entering into bloody battles.

  29. The people have tired of these reckless, wi—

    —ld ways and those farcical incidents.

  30. He who strutted arrogantly over them yesterday

    finds himself a laughingstock today.

  31. He bowed to his adversary to please him, until

    he nearly avowed subservience to him.

  32. He went on, offering his dignity as a means of drawing

    near to the adversary, who refused the gift.

  33. Is he of the nation—the man who went about enlist—

    —ing the foreign hand against the nation?

  34. His faction nearly scattered for fear of

    him; that remnant knows the right course.

  35. You and your companions will win for Egypt a mighty measure

    of eminence and civilization,

  36. and secure her destiny, just as you

    choose these earnest means.

  37. Your magnificent procession passed through towns and villages;

    has Gharbiyya's appointed hour now come?

Sol 6.1