1. يا دولة تدعو الدفاعَ غدرا

    وهي أعم الغادرات شرا

    O state that calls defense treachery,

    yet surpasses all treacherous states in the reach of its evil!

  2. هل نسيت سينوبُ حربَ القِرْمِ

    ورجمك الأسطول أي رجْمِ

    Have you forgotten Sinop in the Crimean War,

    and how fiercely you bombarded the fleet,

  3. وهو لدى مرساه والبَحَّارَهْ

    عليه لا ينتظرون غارَهْ

    while it lay at anchor, with the sailors

    aboard it expecting no raid?

  4. وهل نسيتِ نكبة الهنودِ

    وأخذك الأرمن في القيودِ

    And have you forgotten the calamity of the Indians,

    and your taking the Armenians away in chains?

  5. قد كان لي في ذا المجال مصرخُ

    لو دمتُ حرةً ودام البرزخُ

    I could have raised a cry in this arena,

    had I remained free and the isthmus endured,

  6. وما التقى الأبيض والأحمر في

    ما كان سداً دون كل معتف

    and had the White and Red Seas not met in

    what had been a barrier against every intruder

  7. وكان مسلكي إلى الشآمِ

    وغيرها من مدن الإمامِ

    and had been my road to Syria

    and to the Imam's other cities.

  8. يا دولة القيصر أجفوك على

    أني أخاف اليوم منك بدلا

    O state of the Tsar, I shun you, although

    today I fear another in your place.

  9. إن شغلتك همة اليابانِ

    عن حقك المزعوم في البلقانِ

    If Japan's resolve has distracted you

    from your alleged right in the Balkans,

  10. وقام عنك الإنكليز فيهِ

    مقام ذي تكبُّرٍ وتيهِ

    and the English have taken your place there,

    with the bearing of the arrogant and conceited,

  11. جاءوا وصاحوا صيحة الأنانيهْ

    مصر أو البقاء في مقدونيهْ

    they came and shouted their selfish cry:

    "Egypt—or staying in Macedonia!"

  12. وامتلكوا مصر امتلاك قبرصا

    وكمَّلوا من أمرهم ما نقصا

    And they took possession of Egypt as they had of Cyprus,

    and completed what was lacking in their enterprise.