Sol 6.1

  1. What glory, O you two pyramids,

    is yours after that dam?

  2. You have stood recounting bygone oppression

    and its horrors, without a tongue.

  3. And you terrify every heart with the memory

    of a state that weakened the sons of man.

  4. You two are like it in height and size:

    a monument enduring as long as time.

  5. Yet the dam bore witness to kindness

    and bestowed prosperity upon the lands.

  6. The people built it, willing and joyful,

    out of love for wages and benevolence.

  7. We have a greater right than brine to sweet water

    that used to flow into it before now.

  8. And joy for Egypt, that the Nile should spend

    upon her with fairness and balance.

  9. Thus you will not see her people afflicted

    by drought on any day, nor by flood.

  10. Indeed, the age of Abbas is an age of learning

    and of bliss, radiance, and security.

Sol 6.1