Sol 6.1

  1. O state that calls defense treachery,

    Yet of all treacherous states, its evil reaches widest.

  2. Has Sinop forgotten the Crimean War,

    And your bombardment of the fleet—what a bombardment—

  3. While it lay at its anchorage, and the sailors

    Aboard it were expecting no raid?

  4. And have you forgotten the Indians' calamity,

    And your taking the Armenians in chains?

  5. I could have raised an outcry in this arena,

    Had I remained free and the isthmus endured,

  6. And the White and Red Seas had not met in

    What had been a barrier to all who sought entry,

  7. And my route had led to Syria

    And to the Imam's other cities.

  8. O state of the Tsar, I shun you, although

    Today I fear an exchange at your hands.

  9. If Japan's resolve distracts you

    From your alleged right in the Balkans,

  10. And the English take your place there,

    With the bearing of one full of arrogance and conceit,

  11. They will come and shout the cry of selfishness:

    "Egypt, or staying in Macedonia!"

  12. And take possession of Egypt as they did of Cyprus,

    And complete what was lacking in their undertaking.

Sol 6.1