1. لج الحنين إليك حتى خلتني

    وأنا القصيّ غدوت غير النائي

    Longing for you persisted until I imagined

    that, though far away, I had become no longer distant.

  2. وإذا الفصول جميعها فواحة

    حولي بعطرك تستثير رجائي

    And behold, all the seasons are fragrant

    around me with your perfume, awakening my hope.

  3. وإذا السماء يرعدها وبروقها

    زرقاء مثل سمائك الزرقاء

    And behold, the sky, with its thunder and lightning,

    is blue, like your blue sky.

  4. وإذا الجمال بكل مرأى حفّني

    يفترّ لي بجمالك الوضاء

    And behold, beauty in every sight surrounds me,

    smiling upon me with your radiant beauty.

  5. وغذا الحياة وقد رشفت نعيمها

    ليست سواك بخاطري ودعائي

    And behold, life, whose bliss I have sipped,

    is none but you in my thoughts and prayers.

  6. هذي المشاهد كيف كن شهيدة

    لتلهفي وتبسمي وبكائي

    These scenes—how they have borne witness

    to my yearning, my smiles, and my weeping!

  7. مزجت بأفراحي وأتراحي معا

    فكأنها مثلي من الشهداء

    They have mingled with my joys and sorrows alike,

    as though they, like me, were among the martyrs.

  8. وإذا بكيت بها فإنك دمعتي

    وإذا شدوت بها فأنت غنائي

    And when I weep amid them, you are my tear;

    and when I sing amid them, you are my song.

  9. ما فاتها مني الوفاء وفاتها

    أرضي لديك وجنتي وسمائي

    They have not lacked my devotion; what they lack is

    my land where you are, my paradise, and my sky.

  10. عاث الطغاة مدى فما هادنتهم

    ورحلت أرشقهم بصدق هجائي

    The tyrants wreaked havoc for a time, but I made no truce with them,

    and I departed, pelting them with my truthful satire.

  11. كانت فعالي قدوة وعواطفي

    نارية واسلتها كدمائي

    My deeds were an example, and my passions

    were fiery; I poured them out like my blood.

  12. ما تضحيات الماهدين ضئيلة

    إلا لدى الناسين والجهلاء

    The sacrifices of those who pave the way are not slight,

    except in the eyes of the forgetful and the ignorant.

  13. من لي بقربك لو ملكت قيادة

    للثائرين فكم أضيع ندائي

    Who can bring me near you? If I held command

    of the revolutionaries—for how often my call has been wasted!—

  14. لجعلت مصر إذن حفيدة جدّة

    غنّى بها الشعراء للشعراء

    I would then make Egypt the granddaughter of a grandmother

    of whom poets sang to poets.

  15. سبقت مبادئها المسيح بعدلها

    وشأت بأخناتون كل ضياء

    Her principles, in their justice, preceded Christ,

    and through Akhenaten she outshone every light.

  16. وغدا بها الوادي جنانا حرة

    طهرت من الأوشاب والدهماء

    And within her the valley became gardens of freedom,

    purged of the riffraff and the rabble.

  17. ينساب فيها النيل سيفا مصلتا

    إلا على أحبابه الشرفاء

    Through them the Nile flows, a sword unsheathed,

    but not against his noble loved ones.

  18. رقصت شواطئة بأشتات المنى

    والحب عابقة بكل عطاء

    His shores danced with all manner of hopes

    and love, fragrant with every bounty.

  19. غنى الغراب بها وكان غناؤها

    وقفا على الشحرور والورقاء

    The crow sang there, though their song had once been

    reserved for the blackbird and the gray dove.

  20. فيها المساواة العميقة زينة

    كالنور في الأجبال والأوداء

    There, profound equality is an adornment,

    like light in the mountains and valleys.

  21. ما قيمة الإنسان إلا نفعه

    وكذاك حكم عظائم الأشياء

    A person's worth is nothing but the benefit they bring,

    and great things are judged by the same rule.

  22. والشمس لولا نفعها هانت لنا

    بل أصبحت جيشا من الأعداء

    And the sun, without its benefit, would be of little worth to us;

    rather, it would become an army of enemies.

  23. وطن الصبا وعزيز أحلام الصبا

    ما زلت لي حلما وحلو عزاء

    O homeland of youth, beloved of youthful dreams,

    you remain a dream to me, and a sweet consolation.

  24. حمّلت في شيخوختي أعباء من

    قبعوا ومن ناموا على الأقذاء

    In my old age, I was burdened with the loads of those

    who stayed hidden, and those who slept upon filth.

  25. وتخذت لي منفاي منبر دعوة

    للثأر من ضيم ومن أدواء

    And I made my exile a pulpit from which to call

    for vengeance against oppression and against ills.

  26. في موطن الأحرار لم يخذل به

    فرد ولم يسحق على الغبراء

    In the homeland of the free, never was forsaken

    a single person, nor crushed upon the dusty earth.

  27. يسمو به إقدامه فوق السهى

    ويحول الغبارء كالجوزاء

    His boldness lifts him above Suha,

    and makes the dusty earth like al-Jawza.

  28. أو يفلق الذرات فهي جهنم

    للغاشمين وجنة العلماء

    Or he splits the atoms: they are hell

    for the oppressors, and a paradise for scientists.

  29. صارت شجاعته مثالا يحتذى

    وعلت مىربه على الجببناء

    His courage has become a model to be followed,

    and his aims have risen above the cowards.

  30. فإذا بقيت به عزيزا آبيا

    ورضيت من نفيي بكنز إبائي

    So if I have remained there, dignified and unbowed,

    and accepted, from my exile, the treasure of my defiance,

  31. فلكي أبر بعهد إنسانيّتي

    وأكون رمز تجاوب وإخاء

    it is to fulfill the covenant of my humanity

    and be a symbol of mutual accord and brotherhood.